for
National Renewal or PARENA [Tiebile DRAME]; Patriotic Movement for
Renewal or MPR [Choguel MAIGA]; Rally for Democracy and Labor or
RDT; Rally for Mali or RPM [Ibrahim Boubacar KEITA]; Sudanese
Union/African Democratic Rally or US/RDA [Mamadou Bamou TOURE];
Union for Democracy and Development or UDD [Moussa Balla COULIBALY];
Union for Republic and Democracy or URD [Soumaila CISSE]

Malta
Alternativa Demokratika/Alliance for Social Justice or AD
[Harry VASSALLO]; Malta Labor Party or MLP [acting leader Charles
MANGION]; Nationalist Party or PN [Lawrence GONZI]

Marshall Islands
traditionally there have been no formally organized
political parties; what has existed more closely resembles factions
or interest groups because they do not have party headquarters,
formal platforms, or party structures; the following two "groupings"
have competed in legislative balloting in recent years - Aelon Kein
Ad Party [Michael KABUA] and United Democratic Party or UDP [Litokwa
TOMEING]

Mauritania
Alternative or El-Badil; Centrist Reformists (independent
moderate Islamists); Coalition for Forces for Democratic Change or
CFCD (coalition of political parties including APP, Centrist
Reformists (independent moderate Islamists), HATEM-PMUC, PUDS, RD,
RFD, UFP); Democratic and Social Republican Party or PRDS;
Democratic Renewal or RD; Mauritanian Party for Unity and Change or
HATEM-PMUC; Mithaq (coalition of independents and parties associated
with the former regime including Alternative or El-Badil, PRDR, UDP,
RDU); National Rally for Freedom, Democracy and Equality or RNDLE;
Popular Front or FP [Ch'bih Ould CHEIKH MALAININE]; Popular
Progressive Alliance or APP [Messoud Ould BOULKHEIR]; Rally of
Democratic Forces or RFD [Ahmed Ould DADDAH]; Rally for Democracy
and Unity or RDU [Ahmed Ould SIDI BABA]; Republican Party for
Democracy and Renewal or PRDR [Boullah Ould MOGUEYA] (formerly
ruling Democratic and Social Republican Party or PRDS); Socialist
and Democratic Unity Party or PUDS; Union for Democracy and Progress
or UDP [Naha Mint MOUKNASS]; Union of Democratic Centre or UCD;
Union of the Forces for Progress or UFP

Mauritius
Alliance Sociale or AS [Navinchandra RAMGOOLAM] (governing
coalition - includes MLD, MMSM, MR, MSD, PMXD); Mauritian Labor
Party or MLP [Navinchandra RAMGOOLAM]; Mauritian Militant Movement
or MMM [Paul BERENGER]; Mauritian Socia