Chernok BUNDU, chairman]; Revolutionary United Front Party or RUFP
[Foday SANKOH, chairman]; Sierra Leone People's Party or SLPP
[President Ahmad Tejan KABBAH, chairman]; United National People's
Party or UNPP [John KARIFA-SMART in exile, Raymond KAMARA, acting
leader]
Singapore:
People's Action Party or PAP [GOH Chok Tong, secretary
general] - the governing party; Singapore Democratic Party or SDP
[CHEE Soon Juan]; Singapore People's Party or SPP [CHIAM See Tong];
Workers' Party or WP [J. B. JEYARETNAM]
Slovakia:
Christian Democratic Movement or KDH [Pavol HRUSOVSKY];
Liberal Democratic Union or LDU [Jan BUDAJ]; Movement for a
Democratic Slovakia or HZDS [Vladimir MECIAR]; Party of Civic
Understanding or SOP [Pavol HAMZIK]; Party of the Democratic Left or
SDL [Jozef MIGAS]; Party of the Hungarian Coalition or SMK [Bela
BUGAR]; Slovak Democratic and Christian Union or SDKU [Mikulas
DZURINDA]; note - this is DZURINDA's new party for 2002 elections;
he remains chairman of a rump and splintering SDK; Slovak Democratic
Coalition or SDK (loose parliamentary club grouping representing
members of the smaller SSDS, SZS, and those committed to run under
SDKU in 2002) [Mikulas DZURINDA]; Slovak National Party or SNS [Anna
MALIKOVA]
Slovenia:
Democratic Party of Retired (Persons) of Slovenia or DeSUS
[Janko KUSAR]; Liberal Democratic or LDS [Janez DRNOVSEK, chairman];
New Slovenia or NSI [Andrej BAJUK, chairman]; Slovene National Party
or SNS [Zmago JELINCIC, chairman]; Slovene People's Party or SLS
(Slovenian People's Party or SLS and Slovenian Christian Democrats
or SKD merged in April 2000) [Franc ZAGOZEN, chairman]; Slovene
Youth Party or SMS [leader NA]; Social Democratic Party of Slovenia
or SDS [Janez JANSA, chairman]; United List of Social Democrats
(former Communists and allies) or ZLSD [Borut PAHOR, chairman]
Solomon Islands:
there are two main coalitions - Coalition for
National Unity, Reconciliation, and Peace or CNURP and Alliance for
Change; the CNURP took power on 30 June 2000, it comprises members
of the Liberal Party, People's Alliance Party, and the United Party,
as well as a number of independents; the Alliance for Change,
represents the former government and now is the opposition; in
general, Solomon Islands politics is characterized by fluid
coalitions; Group for National Unity and Reconciliation or GNUR
[leader NA]; Lib
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