; Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan or KCP [Bakytbek
BEKBOYEV]; Party of Justice and Progress [Muratbek IMANALIEV]; Party
of Peasants [Esengul ISAKOV]

Laos
Lao People's Revolutionary Party or LPRP [KHAMTAI Siphandon,
party president]; other parties proscribed

Latvia
Alliance of the Greens and Farmers Union or ZZS [Augusts
BRIGMANIS (Farmer's Union); Indulis EMSIS (Green Party)]; First
Party of Latvia [Ainars SLESERS]; For Human Rights in a United
Latvia or PCTVL [Jakovs PLINERS]; For Our Latvia or ML [Rihards
Jablokovs]; Latvian National Democratic Party or LNDP [Jevgenijs
Osiopovs]; Latvian National Front [Aivars GARDA]; Latvian
Social-Democratic Workers Party (Social Democrats) or LSDSP [Alfred
RUBIKS]; Latvia's Way Union or LC; Light of Latgale or LG; New Era
Party or JL [Einars REPSE]; New Politics Party or JP [Sergejs
DOLGOPOLOVS]; People's Harmony Party or TSP [Janis JURKANS];
People's Party or TP [Atis SLAKTERIS]; Social Democratic Union or
SDS [Egils BALDZENS]; Union for the Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK or
TB/LNNK [Janis STRAUME]; United Social Democratic Welfare Party or
SLP [Juris ZURAVLOVS]; United Republican Party of Latvia or LARP

Lebanon
political activity is organized along largely sectarian
lines; numerous political groupings exist, consisting of individual
political figures and followers motivated by religious, ethnic,
clan, and economic considerations

Lesotho
Basotho Congress Party or BCP [Tseliso MAKHAKHE]; Basotho
National Party or BNP [Maj. Gen. Justine Metsing LEKHANYA]; Lesotho
Congress for Democracy or LCD [Phebe MOTEBANO, chairwoman; Pakalitha
MOSISILI, leader] - the governing party; Lesotho People's Congress
or LPC [Kelebone MAOPE]; United Democratic Party or UDP [Charles
MOFELI]; Marematlou Freedom Party or MFP and Setlamo Alliance
[Vincent MALEBO]; Progressive National Party or PNP [Chief Peete
Nkoebe PEETE]; Sefate Democratic Party or SDP [Bofihla NKUEBE]

Liberia
Alliance of Political Parties (a coalition of LAP and LUP)
[leader NA]; All Liberia Coalition Party or ALCOP [Peter KERBAY];
Liberian Action Party or LAP [C. Gyude BRYANT]; Liberian People's
Party or LPP [Koffa NAGBE]; Liberia Unification Party or LUP [leader
NA]; National Patriotic Party or NPP [Cyril ALLEN] - governing
party; United People's Party or UPP [Wesley JOHNSON]; Unity Party or
UP [Charles CLARKE]

Libya
none

Liechtenstein
P