DRC: Inactive and defunct political parties

Updated April 2006

Political organisations formed after 1990

Parties ordered by date of founding and alphabetically.

Party Remarks
Parti de la Révolution Populaire (PRP)
People's Revolution Party
Leader: Laurent Désére Kabila (d 16 January 2001).
Founded 1967, dissolved in April 1999
Conseil National de Résistance pour la Démocratie (CNRD)
National Council of Resistance for Democracy
Leaders: Gaston Kangele Mubawa (d 1997), André Kisase Ngandu (d January 1997)
Founded 1993, dissolved April 1999
Mouvement Révolutionnaire pour la Libération du Zaïre (MRLZ)
Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Zaïre
Leaders: Déogratias Bugera
Founded 1994, dissolved April 1999
Alliance Démocratique des Peuples (ADP)
Democratic Alliance of Peoples
Leaders: Anselme Masasu Ningaba (d 24 November 2000)
Founded 1995, dissolved April 1999
Alliance des Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Congo-Zaïre (AFDL)
Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaïre
Leader: Laurent Désére Kabila (d 16 January 2001)
Founded 18 October 1996 as an alliance of PRP, CNRD, MRLZ and ADP. Dissolved in April 1999

Sources

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LODGE, T, KADIMA, D & POTTIE, D (eds) 2002 Compendium of Elections in Southern Africa, EISA, 62-68.

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.

SCHMIDT, S & STROUX, D 1999 "Congo (Democratic Republic)" IN Nohlen, D, Kennerich, M & Thibaut, B (eds) Elections in Africa: A Data Handbook, OUP, 288-289.

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).