AMOUZO]
note: Rally of the Togolese People or RPT, led by President
EYADEMA, was the only party until the formation of multiple parties
was legalized 12 April 1991
Tokelau:
none
Tonga:
Human Rights and Democracy Movement [Huliki WATAB, chairman,
Viliami FUKOFUKA, president, 'Akilisi POHIVA, vice president]
Trinidad and Tobago:
National Alliance for Reconstruction or NAR
[Hochay CHARLES]; People's Empowerment Party or PEP [leader NA];
People's National Movement or PNM [Patrick MANNING]; United National
Congress or UNC [Basdeo PANDAY]
Tunisia:
Al-Tajdid Movement [Adel CHAOUCH]; Constitutional
Democratic Rally Party (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Democratique)
or RCD [President Zine El Abidine BEN ALI (official ruling party)];
Liberal Social Party or PSL [Mounir BEJI]; Movement of Democratic
Socialists or MDS [Khamis CHAMMARI]; Popular Unity Party or PUP
[Mohamed Belhaj AMOR]; Unionist Democratic Union or UDU
[Abderrahmane TLILI]
Turkey:
Democratic Left Party or DSP [Bulent ECEVIT]; Motherland
Party or ANAP [Mesut YILMAZ]; Nationalist Action Party or MHP
[Devlet BAHCELI]; True Path Party or DYP [Tansu CILLER]; Virtue
Party or FP [Recai KUTAN]; note - in June 2001, Turkey's
Constitutional Court banned the party; its representatives (except
for two) can stay on in the Grand National Assembly as independents
note: Welfare Party or RP [Necmettin ERBAKAN] was officially
outlawed on 22 February 1998
Turkmenistan:
Democratic Party of Turkmenistan or DPT [Saparmurat
NIYAZOV]
note: formal opposition parties are outlawed; unofficial, small
opposition movements exist underground or in foreign countries
Turks and Caicos Islands:
People's Democratic Movement or PDM [Derek
H. TAYLOR]; Progressive National Party or PNP [Washington MISICK];
United Democratic Party or UDP [Wendal SWANN]
Tuvalu:
there are no political parties but members of Parliament
usually align themselves in informal groupings
Uganda:
only one political organization, the National Resistance
Movement or NRM [President MUSEVENI, chairman] is allowed to operate
unfettered; note - the president maintains that the NRM is not a
political party, but a movement which claims the loyalty of all
Ugandans
note: the new constitution requires the suspension of political
parties while the Movement system is in governanace; of the
political parties that exist
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