This article provides a list of political parties that were or are currently banned by the countries in which they were or are based.
By country
Argentina
In 1943, Pedro Pablo Ramírez banned all political parties after overthrowing the government.[1]
Austria
Algeria
Name
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Native name(s)
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Ideology
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Year banned
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Reference(s)
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Algerian Communist Party
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Arabic: لحزب الشيوعي الجزائري, French: Parti Communiste Algérien
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Communism, Marxism-Leninism
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1962
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Algerian National Movement
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Arabic: لحركة الوطنية الجزائرية, Berber languages: Amussu Aɣelnaw Adzayri, French: Mouvement National Algérien
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Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Algeria
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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
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Neo-Ba'athism, Saddamism
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[2]
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Étoile Nord-Africaine (North African Star)
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Arabic: نجم شمال أفريقيا
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1937
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Islamic Salvation Front
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Arabic: الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, romanized: al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh, French: Front Islamique du Salut
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Anti-democracy, Islamism, Jihadism, Qutbism
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1992
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Liberal Social Party
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French: Parti Social Libéral
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1998
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[3]
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Party of the Socialist Revolution
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Arabic: حزب الثورة الاشتراكية,French: Parti de la Révolution Socialiste
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Socialism
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Wafaa
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2000
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[4]
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Bhutan
Brazil
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.
Brazilian Integralist Action was banned after the Integralist Uprising in 1938.
Bulgaria
All political parties were banned in Bulgaria in 1934.[8]
Name
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Native name(s)
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Ideology
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Year banned
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Reference(s)
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Ratniks
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Nazism
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1939
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[9]
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Canada
Cambodia
Czech Republic
China
Name
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Native name(s)
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Ideology
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Year banned
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Reference(s)
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Democracy Party of China
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Chinese: 中国民主党; pinyin: Zhōngguó Mínzhǔ Dǎng
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Anti-communism, capitalism, liberal democracy, reformism
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Inner Mongolian People's Party
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Mongolian: Өвөр Монголын Ардын Нам, romanized: Övör Mongolyn Aradyn Nam, Traditional Mongolian script: ᠥᠪᠥᠷ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠤᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ ᠨᠠᠮ, simplified Chinese: 内蒙古人民党; traditional Chinese: 內蒙古人民黨; pinyin: Nèiměnggǔ Rénmín Dǎng
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Inner Mongolian independence
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Maoist Communist Party of China
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Chinese: 中国毛泽东主义共产党
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Anti-revisionism, communism, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, revolutionism
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National Democratic Party of Tibet
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Standard Tibetan: བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་མང་གཙོ་ཚོགས་པ།, romanized: bod-kyi rgyal-yongs mang-gtso tshogs-pa, Chinese: 西藏全國民主黨
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Cultural conservatism, constitutional monarchism, Tibetan nationalism
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New Democracy Party of China
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simplified Chinese: 中国新民党; traditional Chinese: 中國新民黨; pinyin: Zhōngguó Xinmíndǎng
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Anti-communism, democracy
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People's Party of Tibet
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Standard Tibetan: བོད་ཀྱི་མིམང་ཆབསྲིད་ཚོགས་པ།
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Liberalism, Middle Way Approach
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Southern Mongolian Democratic Alliance
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Chinese: 南蒙古民主联盟
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Inner Mongolian independence
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Tibetan Improvement Party
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Standard Tibetan: ནུབ་བོད་ལེགས་བཅོས་སྐྱིད་སྡུག, romanized: nub-bod-legs-bcos-skyid-sdug, Chinese: 西藏革命黨
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Secularism, Taiwanese independence, Three Principles of the People, Tibetan independence
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Tibetan National Congress
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Standard Tibetan: བོད་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རང་བཙན་ལྷན་ཚོགས, Chinese: 西藏国民大会党
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Tibetan independence, Tibetan nationalism, national conservatism
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Turkistan Islamic Party
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Uyghur: تۈركىستان ئىسلام پارتىيىسى, romanized: Türkistan Islam Partiyisi, Chinese: 突厥斯坦伊斯兰党, Arabic: الحزب الإسلامي التركستاني, romanized: al-Ḥizb al-Islāmī al-Turkistān
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Islamic fundamentalism, pan-Islamism, Sinophobia, Uyghur nationalism
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Union of Chinese Nationalists
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simplified Chinese: 中国泛蓝联盟; traditional Chinese: 中國泛藍聯盟
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Anti-communism, Chinese nationalism, Chinese unification, civic nationalism, liberal conservatism, Three Principles of the People
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Zhi Xian Party
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Chinese: 中国至宪党
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Chinese New Left, Chongqing model, Maoism
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2013
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[10][11]
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Egypt
Name
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Native name(s)
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Ideology
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Year banned
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Reference(s)
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Anti-Coup Alliance
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Arabic: التحالف الوطني لدعم الشرعية
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Islamism
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2014
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[12]
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Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party - Egypt Region
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Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي - مصر, romanized: Hizb Al-Ba'ath Al-Arabi Al-Ishtiraki – Misr
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Neo-Ba'athism, Saddamism
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Democratic Movement for National Liberation
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Arabic: الحركة الديمقراطية للتحرر الوطنى
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Communism, Marxism, revolutionary socialism
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1953
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Egyptian Communist Organisation
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Arabic: المنظمة الشيوعية المصرية, romanized: al-Munaẓẓamah aš-Šiūʿīah al-Miṣriyyah
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Communism
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Freedom and Justice Party
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Arabic: حزب الحرية والعدالة, romanized: Ḥizb al-Ḥurriyyah wa-l-ʿAdālah
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Islamism, mixed economy, social conservatism
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Independence Party
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Arabic: حزب الاستقلال
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Islamism
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2014
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[13]
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Jewish Anti-Zionist League
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Arabic: الرابطة الإسرائيلية لمكافحة الصهيونية
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Anti-colonialism, anti-racism, communism, Jewish anti-Zionism
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Liberal Constitutional Party
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Arabic: حزب الاحرار الدستوريين, romanized: Ḥizb al-aḥrār al-dustūriyyīn
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Constitutionalism, social liberalism
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1952
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Muslim Brotherhood
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Arabic: جماعة الاخوان المسلمين, romanized: jamāʿat al-ʾiḫwān/al-ikhwan/el-ekhwan al-muslimīn
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Mixed economy, social conservatism, Sunni Islamism
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National Democratic Party
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Arabic: الحزب الوطني الديمقراطي, romanized: Al-Ḥizb Al-Waṭanī Ad-Dīmūqrāṭī
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Egyptian nationalism, populism, social democracy
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2011
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Wafd Party
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Arabic: حزب الوفد, romanized: Ḥizb al-Wafd, lit. 'Delegation Party'
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Egyptian nationalism, national liberalism
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1952
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Watani Party
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Arabic: ﺍﻟﺤﺰﺐ ﺍﻟﻮﻃﻨﻲ, romanized: al-Ḥizb al-Waṭanī, lit. 'National Party'
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Anglophobia, anti-imperialism, Egyptian nationalism
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1952
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Workers Committee for National Liberation – Political Organisation for the Working Class
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Arabic: لجنة العمال للتحرير القومى- الهيئة السياسية للطبقة العاملة
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Anti-imperialism, socialism
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1946
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Young Egypt Party
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Arabic: حزب مصر الفتاة, romanized: Misr El-Fatah
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Agrarianism, antisemitism, Egyptian nationalism, fascism
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1953
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Eswatini
Georgia
Germany
All political parties were banned in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia after the annexation of Czechoslovakia.[17] During World War II political parties in Luxembourg and Norway were banned following their occupations by Germany.[18][19]
Greece
Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas banned all political parties in 1936.[20] Golden Dawn was ruled as a criminal organization in 2020.[21] 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.[22][23]
Haiti
Hong Kong
Iran
Indonesia
Iraq
Moldova
Name
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Native name(s)
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Ideology
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Year banned
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Reference(s)
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Șor Party
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Russophilia, Hard euroscepticism
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2023
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[27][28]
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Netherlands
Nepal
King Tribhuvan of Nepal banned the Communist Party of Nepal. 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.
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. 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.[34]
Russia
Romania
Prime Minister Patriarch Miron of Romania banned all political parties in 1939.[50]
Name
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Native name(s)
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Ideology
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Year banned
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Reference(s)
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Iron Guard
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Garda de Fier
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Fascism
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1939
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[50]
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South Korea
Spain
Batasuna was the first political party banned following the end of Francisco Franco's dictatorship.[51]
Sri Lanka
Sudan
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 were banned again after Omar al-Bashir overthrew the government.
Turkey
Ukraine
United States