MAH]; Progress Force
Union or UFP [Mohamed Ould MAOULOUD]; Rally of Democratic Forces or
RFD [Ahmed Ould DADDAH]; Rally for Democracy and Unity or RDU [Ahmed
Ould SIDI BABA]; Union for Democracy and Progress or UDP [Naha Mint
MOUKNASS]
note: the Action for Change party was banned in January 2002
although its members were permitted to keep their seats in the
National Assembly; parties legalized by constitution ratified 12
July 1991, however, politics continue to be tribally based

Mauritius
Hizbullah [Cehl Mohamed FAKEEMEEAH]; Mauritian Labor Party
or MLP [Navinchandra RAMGOOLAM]; Mauritian Militant Movement or MMM
[Paul BERENGER] - in coalition with MSM; Mauritian Social Democrat
Party or PMSD [Charles Xavier-Luc DUVAL]; Militant Socialist
Movement or MSM [Pravind JUGNAUTH] - governing party; Rodrigues
Movement or MR [Joseph (Nicholas) Von MALLY]; Rodrigues Peoples
Organization or OPR [Serge CLAIR]

Mayotte
Democratic Front or FD [Youssouf MOUSSA]; Mahoran Popular
Movement or MPM [Ahmed MADI]; FARC [leader NA]; Federation of
Mahorans or RPR (UMP) [Mansour KAMARDINE]; Movement for Department
Status Mayotte or MDM [Mouhoutar SALIM]; Renewed Communist Party of
Mayotte or MRC [Omar SIMBA]; Socialist Party or PS (local branch of
French Parti Socialiste) [Ibrahim ABUBACAR]; Union for French
Democracy or UDF [Henri JEAN-BAPTISTE]

Mexico
Convergence for Democracy or CD [Dante DELGADO Ranauro];
Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI [Roberto MADRAZO Pintado];
Mexican Green Ecological Party or PVEM [Jorge Emilio GONZALEZ
Martinez]; National Action Party or PAN [Luis Felipe BRAVO Mena];
Party of the Democratic Revolution or PRD [Leonel GODOY]; Workers
Party or PT [Alberto ANAYA Gutierrez]

Micronesia, Federated States of
no formal parties

Moldova
Democratic Modova Bloc [Serafim URECHEANU] includes:
Democratic Party [Dumitru DIACOV], Our Moldova Alliance [Dumitru
BRAGHIS, Serafim URECHEANU], Social Liberal Party [Oleg SEREBRIAN];
Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova or PCRM [Vladimir
VORONIN, first chairman]; Popular Christian Democratic Party or PPCD
[Iurie ROSCA]

Monaco
National and Democratic Union or UND [Jean-Louis CAMPORA];
Union for Monaco or UPM (including National Union for the Future of
Monaco or UNAM) [leader NA]

Mongolia
Citizens' Will Republican Party or CWRP (also called Civil
Courage Republican Party or CCRP)