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This article provides a list of political parties that were or are currently banned by the countries in which they were or are based.
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In 1943, Pedro Pablo Ramírez banned all political parties after overthrowing the government.[1]
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Algerian Communist Party | Arabic: لحزب الشيوعي الجزائري, French: Parti Communiste Algérien | Communism, Marxism-Leninism | 1962 | |
Algerian National Movement | Arabic: لحركة الوطنية الجزائرية, Berber languages: Amussu Aɣelnaw Adzayri, French: Mouvement National Algérien | |||
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Algeria | Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي في الجزائر, romanized: Hizb Al-Ba'ath Al-Arabi Al-Ishtiraki fy Aljeza'ir, French: Parti Ba'ath Arabe Socialiste d'Algérie | Neo-Ba'athism, Saddamism | [2] | |
Étoile Nord-Africaine (North African Star) | Arabic: نجم شمال أفريقيا | 1937 | ||
Islamic Salvation Front | Arabic: الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, romanized: al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh, French: Front Islamique du Salut | Anti-democracy, Islamism, Jihadism, Qutbism | 1992 | |
Liberal Social Party | French: Parti Social Libéral | 1998 | [3] | |
Party of the Socialist Revolution | Arabic: حزب الثورة الاشتراكية,French: Parti de la Révolution Socialiste | Socialism | ||
Wafaa | 2000 | [4] |
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Bhutan People's Party | Democratic socialism, Lhotshampa interests | 1990 | [5] | |
Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) | Communism, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, republicanism | 2003 |
The Brazilian Communist Party was suppressed during the Vargas Era, but were later able to participate in the 1945 and 1947 elections. However, the party was banned by Eurico Gaspar Dutra in May 1947, and all of its elected officials, baring those elected with support from other parties, were removed from office.[6]
Brazilian Integralist Action was banned after the Integralist Uprising in 1938.[7]
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Brazilian Communist Party | Communism | 1947 | [6] | |
Brazilian Integralist Action | Brazilian Integralism | 1938 | [7] |
All political parties were banned in Bulgaria in 1934.[8]
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Zhi Xian Party | Chinese: 中国至宪党 | Chinese New Left, Chongqing model, Maoism | 2013 | [10][11] |
All political parties were banned in 1953, following the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, but were allowed to exist in 1976.[12]
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Communist Party of Swaziland | Communism | [16] | ||
Convention for Full Democracy in Swaziland | [16] | |||
Ngwane National Liberatory Congress | [16] | |||
Ngwane Socialist Revolutionary Party | [16] | |||
People's United Democratic Movement | [16] | |||
Swaziland National Front | [16] |
Name | Native Name | Ideology | Year Banned | Notes | Reference |
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Communist Party of Georgia | საქართველოს კომუნისტური პარტია | Communism Marxism-Leninism | 1991 | [17] | |
Centrists | ცენტრისტები | Russophilia | 2016 | Banned from election | [18] |
All political parties were banned in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia after the annexation of Czechoslovakia.[19] During World War II political parties in Luxembourg and Norway were banned following their occupations by Germany.[20][21]
Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas banned all political parties in 1936.[22]
Golden Dawn was ruled as a criminal organization in 2020.[23] It was the first party banned in Greece since the end of the Greek junta in 1974.[24] A law passed in 2023 prohibiting parties led by people convicted of crimes from running in elections resulted in Golden Dawn and National Party – Greeks being prohibited from the 2023 Greek legislative election.[25][26]
Name | Native Name | Ideology | Year Banned | Year Legalized | Notes | Reference |
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Communist Party of Greece | Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας | Communism Marxism–Leninism | 1936 | 1974 | Banned by Ioannis Metaxas | [27] |
Golden Dawn | Χρυσή Αυγή | Neo-Nazism Neo-Fascism | 2020 | Ruled as a criminal organization | [23] | |
National Party – Greeks | Εθνικό Kόμμα – Έλληνες | Neo-Fascism | 2023 | Effectively banned | [25] |
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Hong Kong National Party | 香港民族黨 | Hong Kong independence | 2018 | [28] |
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Islamic Iran Participation Front | 2010 | [29] | ||
Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization | 2010 | [29] |
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Islamic Dawa Party | [30] |
Douglas MacArthur considered banning the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) on 3 May 1950. Twenty-four members of the JCP's central committee were removed from office in June and its newspaper, Shimbun Akahata, was banned on June 27.[31]
King Tribhuvan of Nepal banned the Communist Party of Nepal.[34] The Nepali Congress, under the leadership of BP Koirala, won the 1959 election, but King Mahendra of Nepal dissolved the House of Representatives on 15 December 1960. The Rastriya Panchayat was formed and all political parties were banned.[35][34][36]
A referendum was held in 1980 to determine whether to maintain the Panchayat system or institute a multi-party system. The Panchayat system was maintained with 54% of the vote.[37] On 6 April 1990, King Birendra of Nepal ended the ban on political parties in response to the 1990 Nepalese revolution and the 1991 election was the first multi-party election since 1960.[38][39]
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Communist Party of Nepal | Communism | [34] | ||
Nepali Congress | Social democracy Democratic socialism |
[35] |
Prime Minister Patriarch Miron of Romania banned all political parties in 1939.[66]
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Iron Guard | Garda de Fier | Fascism | 1939 | [66] |
Batasuna was the first political party banned following the end of Francisco Franco's dictatorship.[67]
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Batasuna | Basque nationalism | 2003 | [67] |
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Tamil United Liberation Front | Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism | 1983 | [68] |
Jaafar Nimeiry overthrew the government in 1969, and banned all political parties. He was overthrown by a coup d'état in 1985, and a new government was formed by Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab. He legalized political parties, but they were banned again after Omar al-Bashir overthrew the government.[69][70]
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Sudanese Ba'ath Party | Ba'athism | [71] | ||
Sudanese Communist Party | Communism | 1989 | [72] |
All political parties, except for the Democrat Party, were dissolved following the 2006 coup d'état and their members banned from seeking office for five years.[73] Thai Rak Thai Party members joined the People's Power Party after the TRT was banned and then the Pheu Thai Party after the PPP was banned. Thai Nation Party members joined the Chart Thai Pattana Party after their party was banned.[74]
Legend: TRT linerage FFP linerage
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Communist Party of Thailand | Communism | [75] | ||
Thais Love Thais Party | Phak Thai Rak Thai | Populism | 2007 | [76] |
Pandin Thai | 2007 | [77] | ||
Prachatipatai Kaona | 2007 | [77] | ||
Pattana Chart Thai | 2007 | [77] | ||
People's Power Party | Phak Phalang Prachachon | Populism | 2008 | [77] |
Thai Nation Party | 2008 | [77] | ||
Neutral Democratic Party | Phak Matchima Thippathai | Populism | 2008 | [77] |
Future Forward Party | Phak Anakhot Mai | Social democracy | 2020 | [78] |
Move Forward Party | Phak Kao Klai | Social democracy | 2024 | [79] |
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Multiple states, including California, directly banned the Communist Party USA while other state indirectly did so by banning parties that supported overthrowing the government using violence. Communist candidates were removed from the ballot in Arizona and Georgia in 1940, as the secretaries of state ruled that they could not honestly take the oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States.[92]
Name | Native name(s) | Ideology | Year banned | Reference(s) |
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Communist Party USA | Communism | 1954 | [93] |
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