Afghanistan
Last update: October 1, 2006
| PARTY | PERIODICALS | CONTACT | IDEOL. | INTERNAT. | ELECTION Parl. '05* |
OTHER | ||
| Afghan Social Democratic Party / Afghan Nation [Ahady] | Hezb-e Sosyal Demokratik-e Afghan / Hezb-e Afghan Millat [Ahadi] حزب افغان ملت |
Afghan Mellat | soc. dem. | 1.18% 92 cand. |
f. 1966, led by Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady | |||
| New Afghan Social Democratic Party / Afghan Nation [Shams] | Hezb-e Sosyal Demokratik-e Afghan / Hezb-e Afghan Millat [Shams] حزب افغان ملت |
soc. dem. | - | f. 1987 as split from Afghan Millat, led by Ajmal Shams | ||||
| Afghanistan Labour Revolutionary Organisation | Sazman-e Enqelabi-ye Kargaran-e Afghanistan | ALRO | rad. left., ex-mao. | in ASP | split from ALO in 1996, led by Adil Afghani | |||
| Afghanistan Liberation Organization | Sazman-e Raha-ye Afghanistan سازمان رهایی افغانستان |
ALO | mao. | ex-Chin. | - | f. 1973 as Revolutionary Group of the Peoples of Afghanistan | ||
| Afghanistan People's Liberation Organization | Sazman-e Azadibakhsh-e Mardom-e Afghanistan | SAMA | mao. | - | f. 1978 | |||
| Afghanistan Socialist Association | - | f. in 1999 | ||||||
| New Afghanistan Solidarity Party | Hezb-e Hambastagi Afghanistan حزب همبستگی افغانستان |
ASP | Hambastagy Ghag | 0.073% 2 cand. |
alliance of 6 parties; led by Abdul Khaleq Ne'mat | |||
| New All Nation Movement for Democracy and Progress of Afghanistan | Nahzat-e Faragir-e Democracy wa Taraqi-e Afghanistan | com. | ICS | - | led by Sher Mohammad Buzgar, founded by former members of Parcham wing of PDPA | |||
| Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan | Hezb-e Komunist-e (Maoist-e) Afghanistan حزب كمونيست (مائوئيست) افغانستان |
Shola-ye Javid | mao. | RIM | - | f. 2004 by merger of Communist Party of Afghanistan with other groups | ||
| New Democratic Party of Afghanistan | Hezb-e Demokrat-e Afghanistan حزب دموکرات افغانستان |
0.055% 1 cand. |
founded by former members of Parcham wing of PDPA, led by Abdul Kabir Ranjbar | |||||
| Democratic Watan Party of Afghanistan | Hezb-e Watan Demokratik-e Afghanistan حزب "وطن" دموکراتیک افغانستان |
DWPA | Democracy | ex-com. | ex-WMR | - | f. 1965 as People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Homeland (Watan) Party since 1990, DWPA since 2002, controlled by former Parcham wing | |
| New Kabul Accord | Payman-e Kabul | soc. dem. | - | f. 2002 by 7 organizations (SAZA, Wolesi Mellat) | ||||
| New Labour Group | Goroh-e Kar | Uzbek PDPA faction f. in the 1960s, split from it in 1992, joined the party of general Dostum and left after the Afghanistan invasion. | ||||||
| Left Radical of Afghanistan | Chap-e Radikal Afghanistan | Dunia-e Naw | rad. left. | - | ||||
| Marxist-Leninist Organization of Afghanistan | mao. | ICMLPO[M] | - | |||||
| New National Congress Party | Hezb-e Kangre-ye Milli حزب کنگره ملیافغانستان |
0.44% 13 cand. |
f. 2003 mainly by former SAZA and Parcham members, led by Abdul Latif Pedram | |||||
| New National Party | Hezb-e Milli حزب ملی افغانستان |
0.062% 5 cand. |
founded by former members of Khalq wing of PDPA, led by Abdul Rashid Aryan | |||||
| New National Solidarity Movement | Junbesh-e Hambastagi Milli | - | f. 2002 by majority of Labour Group, led by Engineer Ahmad and Enyatollah Edoyat | |||||
| National United Party | Hezb-e Muttahed-e Milli حزب متحد ملی |
soc. dem. | 0.031% 8 cand. |
f. 2003 by members of the Parcham faction of former PDPA, led by Noorul Haq Uloomi | ||||
| New National Unity Party | Hezb-e Wahdat-e Milli Afghanistan حزب وحدت ملی افغانستان |
soc. dem. | 0.12% 6 cand. |
f. as Organisation for National Unity of Afghanistan (ONUA) in 1986 by members of Khalq faction of PDPA and supporters of Hafizullah Amin, led by Abdul Rashid Jalili | ||||
| New National Uprising Party | Hezb-e Rastakhaiz-e Milli | - | founded by former members of Parcham wing of PDPA | |||||
| New Patriotic Unity Party of Afghanistan | Hezb-e Paiwand-e Miahani-ye Afghanistan حزب پیوند میهنی افغانستان |
Paiwand-e Maihani Afghanistan | 0,18% 12 cand. |
led by Sayed Kamal Sadat | ||||
| New Peace Movement of Afghanistan | Da Afghanistan Da Solay Ghorzang Gond د افغانستان د سولی غورځنگ ګوند |
0.065% 4 cand. |
f. 1993 by former defence minister Shahnawaz Tanai | |||||
| People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan | Hezb-e Demokratik-e Khalq-e Afghanistan حزب دموکراتيک خلق افغانستان |
PDPA | com. | ICS | - | split from Homeland Party, led by Sulaiman Laeq | ||
| New People's Nation | Wolesi Millat | soc. dem. | - | split from Afghan Millat | ||||
| Revolutionary Movement of Afghanistan | Hajama | mao. | - | |||||
| New Revolutionary Organisation of the Toilers of Afghanistan | Sazman-e Enqelabi-ye Zahmatkashanha-ye Afghanistan | SAZA | ex-mao. | - | f. 1968 as Setim-e Milli, refounded in 2002, led by Manbullah Kushani | |||
| New Section of the International Marxist Tendency | tro. | IMT | - | |||||
| New Welfare Party of Afghanistan | Hezb-e Refah-e Afghanistan حزب رفاه افغانستان |
founded by members of Khalq faction of PDPA, led by Meer Mohammad Asef Zaeefi | ||||||
| Workers Socialist Organization of Afghanistan | Sazman-e Sosiyalistha-ye Kargaran-e Afghanistan | Asre Jadid, Kargari Sapa | left. com. | - | f. 2002 | |||
| *political parties received very few votes because most of the candidates stood as independents | ||||||||
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