List of political parties in Rwanda
The list of Parties in Rwanda leads the legal and the non-registered and historic parties of the Central African country of Rwanda.
The dominant party in the country, despite the formal introduction of a multi-party system with the constitutional referendum in 2003, the ruling party Rwanda Rwandan Patriotic Front.
Legally recognized parties
- Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF ) (French: Front patriotique rwandais, English: Rwandan Patriotic Front, Rwandese Patriotic Front Patriotic Front of Rwanda or, abbreviated English: RPF or French FPR)
In the last parliamentary elections in 2003 came as part of a coalition with the RPF:
- Parti démocratique chrétien
- Parti démocratique islamique
- Parti Socialiste rwandais
- Parti de la Solidarité et Progres you
- Parti du Progres et de la Concorde
- Union démocratique du peuple rwandais
- Parti social démocrate
- Parti libéral
- Mouvement démocratique républicain (MDR )
- Parti pour le progrès et la concorde
Unrecognised Parties
- Parti pour le renouveau démocratique
- Parti vert démocratique
- Rassemblement pour la Démocratie au Rwanda Républicain ( RDR)
Resolved / banned parties
- Mouvement national pour la républicain démocratie et le développement, is considered a pioneer of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, was banned after the genocide.
- Parmehutu, including MDR- Parmehutu ( Mouvement démocratique republicain Parmehutu ), existed from 1961 to 1973, both in Rwanda and in neighboring Burundi as the party of Hutu
- Coalition pour la Défense de la République, became embroiled in the genocide of the Hutu party.
Past parties
- Union National Rwandaise, yet founded during the Belgian colonial period, reaching more than 16% of the vote in the first elections after independence.
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