[Medardo GONZALEZ]; Liberal Democratic Party or PLD [Kirio Waldo
SALGADO, president]; National Action Party or PAN [Gustavo Rogelio
SALINAS, secretary general]; National Conciliation Party or PCN
[Ciro CRUZ ZEPEDA, president]; National Republican Alliance or ARENA
[Elias Antonio SACA Gonzalez]; Social Christian Union or USC (formed
by the merger of Christian Social Renewal Party or PRSC and Unity
Movement or MU) [Abraham RODRIGUEZ, president]; Social Democratic
Party or PSD [Juan MEDRANO]

Equatorial Guinea
Convergence Party for Social Democracy or CPDS
[Placido MIKO Abogo]; Democratic Party for Equatorial Guinea or PDGE
(ruling party) [Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO]; Party for Progress
of Equatorial Guinea or PPGE [Severo MOTO]; Popular Action of
Equatorial Guinea or APGE [Miguel Esono EMAN]; Popular Union or UP
[Andres Moises Bda ADA]; Progressive Democratic Alliance or ADP
[Victorino Bolekia BONAY]; Union of Independent Democrats of UDI
[Daniel OYONO]

Eritrea
People's Front for Democracy and Justice or PFDJ, the only
party recognized by the government [ISAIAS Afworki]; note - a
National Assembly committee drafted a law on political parties in
January 2001, but the full National Assembly has not yet debated or
voted on it

Estonia
Center Party of Estonia (Keskerakond) [Edgar SAVISAAR,
chairman]; Estonian People's Union (Rahvaliit) [Villu REILJAN,
chairman]; Estonian Reform Party (Reformierakond) [Andrus ANSIP];
Estonian United Russian People's Party or EUVRP [Yevgeniy TOMBERG,
chairman]; Pro Patria Union (Isamaaliit) [Tunne KELAM, chairman];
Res Publica [Juhan PARTS, chairman]; Social Democratic Party
(formerly People's Party Moodukad or Moderates) [Ivari PADAR,
chairman]; Social Liberals (group of 8 parliamentarians, former
Center Party members) [Peeter Kreitzberg]

Ethiopia
Afar National Democratic Party or ANDP [leader NA];
Benishangul Gumuz People's Democratic Unity Front or BGPDUF
[Mulualem BESSE]; Coalition for Unity and Democracy or CUD [HAILU
Shawil]; Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front or EPRDF
[MELES Zenawi] (an alliance of ANDM, OPDO, SEPDF, and TPLF); Gurage
Nationalities' Democratic Movement or GNDM [leader NA]; United
Ethopian Democratic Forces or UEDF [MERARA Gudina]; dozens of small
parties

European Union
Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for
Europe or ALDE [Graham R. WATSON]; Indep