List of political parties in Angola

This list includes the political parties in Angola .

After independence from Portugal in 1975 and the subsequent one-party system of the MPLA , independent parties were not allowed in Angola until 1990. After the elections to the National Assembly of Angola in 2012 , 67 parties were legally dissolved, leaving 11 parties. 19 parties were dissolved because they received less than 0.5% of the vote, and 48 parties lost their approval because they did not run for elections twice in a row.

Parties represented in parliament

• Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola ("Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola", MPLA, social democratic since 1990, previously socialist)
• União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola ("National Union for the Complete Independence of Angola", UNITA, conservative)
• Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola ("National Front for the Liberation of Angola", FNLA, conservative-liberal, ethnically linked to the Bakongo )
• Partido de Renovação Social ("Party of Social Renewal", PRS, ethnically linked to the Chokwe )
• Convergência Ampla de Salvação de Angola - Coligação Eleitoral ("Broad Agreement to Save Angola - Coalition for Election", CASA-CE), coalition party from:
  • Partido de Aliança Livre de Maioria Angolana ("Party of the Free Alliance of the Angolan Majority", PALMA)
  • Partido de Apoio para Democracia e Desenvolvimento de Angola - Aliança Patriótica ("Party for the Promotion of Democracy and Development in Angola", PADDA-AP)
  • Partido Pacífico Angolano ("Angolan Pacifist Party", PPA)
  • Partido Nacional de Salvação de Angola ("National Party for the Salvation of Angola", PNSA)

Extra-parliamentary parties

• Partido Democrático para o Progresso de Aliança Nacional de Angola ("Democratic Party for Progress and the National Alliance", PDP-ANA)
• Bloco Democrático ("Democratic Bloc", BD)
• Movimento de Defesa dos Interesses de Angola - Partido de Consciência Nacional ("Movement for the Defense of Angolan Interests - Party of National Consciousness", MDIA-PCN) Note: since 2012, the MDIA-PCN has been threatened with a request for dissolution from the public prosecutor

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• Tribunal Constitucional extingue 67 Partidos Políticos : Constitutional Court dissolves 67 political parties , article from May 2, 2013 by the state news agency ANGOP , accessed on April 25, 2015