List of political parties in East Timor

Sample voting slip for the parliamentary election with the flags of the competing parties

The list of political parties in East Timor includes the current and former parties in East Timor . The Indonesian parties that were represented in the country during the occupation (1975–1999) are not listed. Official registration and admission as a party takes place at the Tribunal de Recurso de Timor-Leste .

Current parties

Parties of East Timor

Political party	abbreviation	founding year	information	symbol
Associação Popular Monarquia Timorense	APMT		Spin-off from Klibur Oan Timor Asuwain (KOTA)
Associação Social-Democrata de Timor	ASDT	2001	conservative, 2007 in the electoral alliance with PSD
Centro Acção Social Democrata Timorense	CASDT	2015	social democratic
Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense	CNRT	2007	conservative
Frente Revolucionária do Timor-Leste Independente	FRETILIN	1974	shortly after it was founded as the ASDT, it was renamed FRETILIN, the dominant party in East Timor and the main force in the freedom struggle against Indonesia, originally broadly positioned from center to Marxist-Leninist, today more center-left
Frente de Reconstrução Nacional de Timor-Leste - Mudança	Frenti-Mudança, Frenti-M	2011	Split from FRETILIN, originally founded as FRETILIN Mudança ., Social democratic
Kmanek Haburas Unidade Nasional Timor Oan	KHUNTO	2011	Support from Korka
Movimentu Libertasaun ba Povu Maetze	MLPM	2013
Partido Democrata Cristão	PDC	1999/2000	Christian-social
Partido Democrática Republica de Timor	PDRT	2007	2012 electoral alliance with PLPA, part of the BUP since 2015
Partido Democrático	PD	2001	Middle right
Partido do Desenvolvimento Nacional	PDN	2008	conservative, split from PSD
Partido do Desenvolvimento Popular	PDP	2012
Partido Esperança da Pátria	PEP	2017
Partido Milénio Democrático	PMD	2004	Split from PSD, 2012 electoral alliance Coligação Bloco Proclamador with PARENTIL, part of PMD since 2015
Partido Nasionalista Timorense	PNT	1999	"Progressive national", for close relations with Indonesia
Partido do Povo de Timor	PPT	2000	conservative-national, 2007 in the electoral alliance with KOTA
Partido Republika Nacional Timor Leste	PARENTILE	2001	Conservative, 2012 electoral alliance Coligação Bloco Proclamador with PMD, 2015–2017 part of the BUP
Partido Social Democrata	Psd	2000	conservative, 2007 electoral alliance with ASDT
Partido Socialista de Timor	PST	2001	Socialist, Marxist-Leninist, 2015–2016 part of the BUP
Partido Timorense Democrático	PTD	2008	Split from PNT
Partido Trabalhista Timorense	PT, PTT	1974	democratic, socialist, 2012 electoral alliance with KOTA
Partido Unidade Nacional	PUN	2007	emerged from the Partidu Nacional (PN) founded in 2005, Christian conservative
Partidu Democrática Liberal	PDL	2011	Founded as Partai Liberal in 2001. liberal, right
Partidu Liberta Povu Aileba	PLPA	2009	Split from ASDT, electoral alliance with PDRT in 2012, part of BUP since 2015
Partidu Libertasaun Popular	PLP	2015	middle right
Partidu Republikanu	PR	2007	social democratic
Partidu Unidade Dezenvolvimentu Demokratiku	PUDD	2016
União Democrata-Crista de Timor	UDC	1998-2007	Split from the UDT, Christian-conservative, merged into the PDC, liberal, right-wing
União Democrática Timorense	UDT	1974	East Timor's oldest party, right-wing conservative, originally pro-Portuguese and supported by the aristocratic class
União Nacional Democrática de Resistência Timorense	UNDERTIM	2005	Support from veterans and Sagrada Família

Former parties

Parties of East Timor

Political party	abbreviation	Consist	information	symbol
Associação Popular Democrática Timorense	APODETI	1974-2007	pro-Indonesian, after the independence referendum turned away from it, at the end party name with the addition " Pro Referendo "
Klibur Oan Timor Asuwain	KOTA	1974–2016 (?)	conservative, strong support from the traditional Timorese nobility, 2007 electoral alliance with the PPT, 2012 electoral alliance with the PTT
Partai Democracy Maetze	PDM	2000–2001 (?)	Roots possibly in the APODETI

Party alliances

Only party alliances with their own name are included in the list.

Party alliances

Political party	abbreviation	Consist	Members	symbol
Aliança da Maioria Member of Parliament	AMP	2007–2012	CNRT , PD , ASDT , PSD , UNDERTIM
Aliança para Mudança e Progresso	AMP	since 2017	CNRT , PLP , KHUNTO (Aliança da Maioria member of parliament until 2018)
Aliança Democrática KOTA / PPT	AD	2007	KOTA , PPT
Aliança Democrática	AD	2012	KOTA , PTT
Bloku Unidade Popular	BUP	2015–2018 (?)	PDRT , PMD , PLPA (until 2018), PST (until 2016), PARENTIL (until 2017)
Coligação Bloco Proclamador	Bloco proclamador	2012	PARENTILE , PMD
Forum Demokrátiku Nasionál	FDN	2017-2018	APMT , BUP , PST , PSD , PDP , MLPM , PDC
Frenti Dezenvolvimentu Demokratiku	FDD	2017-2018	PUDD , FM , UDT , PDN
Liga Democrática Progressiva	LDP	2007– (?)	PDC , PDRT , PMD , PNT , PST , UDT
Movimentu Dezenvolvimentu Nasional	MDN	since 2018	APMT , MLPM , PLPA , UNDERTIM
Movimento Social Democrata	MSD	since 2018	PSD , PST , PDC , CASDT

Election results

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  Final result of the
  2001 Constituent Assembly election

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  Final result of the 2007 general election

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  Final result of the 2012 general election

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  Final result of the 2017 general election

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  Final result of the 2018 general election

See also

• List of East Timorese political flags

Web links

Commons : Political parties of East Timor  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Pat Walsh : East Timor's Political Parties and Groupings Briefing Notes , Australian Council for Overseas Aid 2001 (English; MS Word ; 174 kB)
• Gavin Ryan: Political Parties and Groupings of Timor-Leste , 2nd edition, Australian Labor International, 2007 ( Memento of June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English; PDF; 996 kB)
• Dennis Shoesmith: Political Parties and Groupings of Timor-Leste , 3rd edition, Australian Labor International, October 2011 ( Memento of May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Dennis Shoesmith: Party Systems and Factionalism in Timor-Leste , 2020.
• Lurdes Silva-Carneiro de Sousa: Some Facts and Comments on the East Timor 2001 Constituent Assembly Election , Lusotopie 2001: pp. 299–311 ( Memento of October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( RTF ; 199 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FORUM DEMOKRATIKU NASIONAL (APMT, BUP, PST, PSD, PDP, MLPM, PDC) KOMUNIKADU DE IMPRENSA , January 12, 2018 , accessed on January 13, 2018.
2. ^ Facebook page of the FDD , accessed on March 3, 2018.