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List of political parties in French Guiana

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French Guiana is not a separate territory but a region of France. France has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

For further details see the article: Politics of France.

The parties

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Most of the French political parties are active in French Guiana.

In addition to these there are a number of regional parties:

Party Abbr. Ideology Founded
Decolonization and Social Emancipation Movement
Mouvement de décolonisation et d'émancipation sociale
MDES Anti-colonialism, marxism 1991
Guianese Socialist Party
Parti socialiste guyanais
PSG Democratic socialism, social democracy 1956
Democratic Forces of Guiana
Forces démocratiques de Guyane
FDG Social democracy, autonomism 1992
To the Left in Guyana [fr]
À gauche en Guyane
AGEG Autonomism 2003
Walwari Socialism, autonomism 1992

Since the December 2015 territorial elections, all the regional parties and the branches of the metropolitan parties hitherto represented in the former regional and general councils have been eliminated from the new Guianese Assembly. Only two lists, both labeled "miscellaneous left" (LDVG) by the Interior Ministry, concurred for the second round, none of them from a party or coalition of parties, both of them including unaffiliated candidates from left and right. Many local officeholders are also "miscellaneous left" or "miscellaneous right".[1][2]

References

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See also

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