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

Sources

COMMISSION ELECTORALE INDÉPENDANTE 2006 "Liste des partis politiques", [www] http://www.cei-rdc.org/parti_politique.php3 (Off-line 23 Oct 2007).

KABEMBA, C 2004, Perspectives on the Role of Key Stakeholders in the DRC's Political Transition (accessed 23 Oct 2007).

MURISON, K (ed) 2001 Africa South of the Sahara 2002, Europa Publications, 264.

MTHEMBU-SALTER, G 2002, "The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Recent History" IN Murison, K (ed), Africa South of the Sahara 2002, Europa Publications, 264.

NGOY-KANGOY, HK 2006 Parties and Political Transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo [PDF document], EISA Research Report No 20.

WIKIPEDIA UNDATED, "Political parties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo", [www] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Political_parties_in_the_Democratic_Republic_ of_the_Congo [opens new window] (accessed 23 Oct 2007).