List of political parties in Sudan explained

Sudan has several political parties which have very little political power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no chance of gaining influence.

Main parties

• Democratic Unionist Party (Al Hizb Al-Ittihadi Al-Dimuqrati)
• Umma Party (Hizb al-Umma)
• Umma Party (Reform and Renewal)
• Omom Party
• Sudanese Congress Party (SCP or SCoP) (Hizb al-Mu’tamar al-Sudani)
• Popular Congress Party (Al-Mu'tamar al-Sha’bi)^[1]
• Sudanese Ba'ath Party (Hizb al-Ba'ath as-Sudani)
• Sudanese Communist Party (Al-Hizb al-Shuyui al-Sudani)
• Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Organisation^[2]
• Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Country^[3]
• Liberal Party of Sudan (Al-Hizb Al-Librali)
• Binaa Sudan Party (Hizb Binaa Al Sudan) https://www.binaa-sudan.org
• Liberal Democrats (Hizb Al-Demokhrateen Al-Ahrar)
• Nubian Front of Liberation (Jabhat al-Tahrir al-Nuwbia)
• National Democratic Alliance^[4]
• Sudan National Alliance http://members.tripod.com/~saf_pl/
• The National Reform Party https://web.archive.org/web/20110207112033/http://alislahalwatani.com/
• Sudanese Unity National Party (S.U.N. PARTY)
• Islamic Socialist Party
• Free People Party (FPP)
• Sudan Democratic Progressive Party

Dissolved parties

• Sudanese Socialist Democratic Union^[5]

Banned parties

• National Congress Party

See also

• Politics of Sudan
• List of political parties by country

External links

• Sudan Electionnaire
• Hizb ut-Tahrir Media site
• Hizb ut-Tahrir official website

Notes and References

1. formed by Hassan al-Turabi after falling out with Omar al-Bashir
2. pro-Iraqi Command.
3. pro-Syrian Command.
4. a group of political parties formed in opposition to the 1989 military coup led by Omar al-Bashir
5. descended from the Sudanese Socialist Union of Gaafar Nimeiry