DRC: Unregistered political parties

Updated April 2006

Parties ordered by date of founding and alphabetically.

Note: Kabenba (2004, 6) estimated the total number of parties at 443. The following are known parties that had not yet registered by 31 March 2006 (Commission Electorale Indépendante 2006); some of these parties may no longer exist.

Party Leader Founded
Union Fédéralist et Républicans Indépendants (UFERI)
Federalist and Independent Republicans Union
Lokambo Omokoko & Adolph Kishwe Maya, Gabriel Kyungu wa Kumwanza
Nguza Karl-I-Bond
February 1991
Union des Démocrates Indépendants (UDI)
Independent Democratic Union
Léon Kengo Wa Dondo 1991?
Organisation des Progressistes de Congo (MWENDEKO) 1997?
Resistance Patriotique Zaïroise (RPZ) Léon O Engulu Boyeka 1998?
Union de la Gauche Congolaise (UGC)
Congolese Left Wing Union
Leader: Delphin Banza Hangakolwa 1998/9
Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie - National (RCD - N)
Congolese Regrouping for National Democracy
François Kalwele 2004?
Alliance of Patriots Omar Kutumisa & Loka ne Kongo
Démocratie Chrétienne Fédéraliste (DCF)
Federalist Christian Democracy
Nyamuisi
Parti Néo-Chrétien Démocratique, (PNCD)
Union pour la République (URD)
Union for the Republic and the Democracy
Union Socialiste Congolaise (USC) Christian Badibangi