Burundi has a multi-party system, with two or three strong parties and a third party that is electorally successful. Most parties are usually based on ethnic background, representing the majority Hutu or minority Tutsi and Twa groups. Before 1993, Burundi did not have contested multi-party elections.
Parties represented in Parliament
Parties without parliamentary representation
Defunct Parties
Abanyamajambere Party (AB)African National Union of Ruanda-Urundi (UNARU)
Association of Barundi Progressives and Democrats (APRODEBA)
Barundi Workers' Rally (RTB)
Burundi Workers' Party (UBU)Christian Democratic Party (PDC)
Country Democratic Rally (RDP)
Country Democratic Union (UDP)
Free Socialist Party of Burundi (PARSOCILIBRE)National Union of Burundi-Abadahemuka (UNB-Abadahemuka)
Party for the Independence of Burundi (PIBU)
Party of the People (PP)People's Emancipation Party (PEP)
People's Party (PP)People's Rally of Burundi (RPB)
People's Union of Burundi (UPB)
Progressive Movement of Burundi (MPB)
Reconciliation Party (PR)
Rural Democratic Party (PDR)
Rural Movement of Burundi (MRB)
Union for Hutu Promotion (UPROHUTU)
Union of People's Parties (UPP)
Union of the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa of Burundi (UHTTB)
Voice of the Murundi People (VPM)
Young Workers' Party of Burundi (PDJTB)
See also
Sovereign states States with limited
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