political parties are banned by the constitution promulgated
on 13 October 1978; illegal parties are prohibited from holding
large public gatherings; the organizations listed are political
associations

Sweden:
Center Party [Lennart DALEUS]; Christian Democratic Party
[Alf SVENSSON]; Communist Workers' Party [Rolf HAGEL]; Green Party
[no formal leader but party spokesperson is Briger SCHLAUG]; Left
Party or VP (formerly Communist) [Gudrun SCHYMAN]; Liberal People's
Party [Lars LEIJONBORG]; Moderate Party (conservative) [Bo
LUNDGREN]; New Democracy Party [Vivianne FRANZEN]; Social Democratic
Party [Goran PERSSON]

Switzerland:
Christian Democratic People's Party
(Christichdemokratische Volkspartei der Schweiz or CVP, Parti
Democrate-Chretien Suisse or PDC, Partito Democratico-Cristiano
Popolare Svizzero or PDC, Partida Cristiandemocratica dalla Svizra
or PCD) [Adalbert DURRER, president]; Green Party (Grune Partei der
Schweiz or Grune, Parti Ecologiste Suisse or Les Verts, Partito
Ecologista Svizzero or I Verdi, Partida Ecologica Svizra or La
Verda) [Ruedi BAUMANN, president]; Radical Free Democratic Party
(Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei der Schweiz or FDP, Parti
Radical-Democratique Suisse or PRD, Partitio Liberal-Radicale
Svizzero or PLR) [Franz STEINEGGER, president]; Social Democratic
Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz or SPS, Parti
Socialist Suisse or PSS, Partito Socialista Svizzero or PSS, Partida
Socialdemocratica de la Svizra or PSS) [Christiane BRUNNER,
president]; Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei or SVP,
Union Democratique du Centre or UDC, Unione Democratica de Centro or
UDC, Uniun Democratica dal Center or UDC) [Ueli MAURER, president];
and other minor parties

Syria:
National Progressive Front or NPF (includes the Ba'th Party,
ASU, Arab Socialist Party, Socialist Unionist Democratic Party, ASP,
SCP) [President Bashar al-ASAD]; Arab Socialist Renaissance (Ba'th)
Party (governing party) [Bashar al-ASAD, secretary general of the
party, and chairman of the National Progressive Front after the
death of Hafiz al-ASAD on 10 June 2000]; Arab Socialist Unionist
Movement or ASU [Sami SOUFAN]; Arab Socialist Party [Abd al-Ghani
KANNUT]; Socialist Unionist Democratic Party [Ahmad al-ASAD]; Syrian
Arab Socialist Party or ASP [Safwan KOUDSI]; Syrian Communist Party
or SCP [Yusuf FAYSAL]

Tajikistan:
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