List of political parties in Mauritius

This article lists Mauritius political parties in alphabetical order. Mauritius has a multi-party system with numerous political 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.

The parties

Parties represented in the National Assembly

Name		Abbr.	Leader	MPs	Emblem	Actual alliance	Website
	Labour Party	PTR	Navin Ramgoolam	4		None	www.labourparty.mu
	Mouvement Militant Mauricien	MMM	Paul Berenger	9	60px	None	www.mmm.mu
	Mouvement Socialiste Militant	MSM	Sir Anerood Jugnauth	33		Alliance Lepep	www.msmparty.com
	Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate	PMSD	Xavier-Luc Duval	7		Alliance Lepep	lepmsd.mu
	Muvman Liberater	ML	Ivan Collendavelloo	7		Alliance Lepep

Parties without representation

Name		Abbr.	Leader	Emblem	Actual alliance	Website
	Front Solidarité Mauricien	FSM	Cehl Meeah			None
	Azir Moris		Jameel Peerally		None
	Ensam Nou Kapav		Roshni Mooneeram		None
	Lalit				None	www.lalitmauritius.org
	Les Verts Fraternels	VF	Sylvio Michel		None
	Ralliement citoyen pour la patrie	RCP	Parvez Dookhy		None	ralliementcitoyen.com
	The Four Cats		Lallmohammed Ramjan		None
	Mauritius New Generation Forces	MNGF	Ahmedally Janoo		None
	Mouvement Authentique Mauricien	MAM	Eliézer François		None
	Mouvement Mauricien Sociale Démocrate	MMSD	Eric Guimbeau		None
	The Liberals		Maharajah Madhewoo		None
	Parti Justice Sociale		Sheila Bunwaree		None
	Parti Malin		Danrajsingh Aubeeluck		None	partymalin.com
	Rezistans ek Alternativ		Ashok Subron		None

Defunct and merged parties

Name		Abbr.	Leader	Founded	Dissolved
	Comité d'Action Musulman	CAM	Sir Abdool Razack Mohamed
	Independent Forward Blok	IFB	Sookdeo Bissoondoyal	1958
	Mouvement Militant Socialiste Mauricien	MMSM	Madan Dulloo
	Mouvement Républicain	MR
	Parti Mauricien Xavier-Luc Duval	PMXD	Xavier-Luc Duval
	Parti Socialiste Mauricien	PSM	Harish Boodhoo
	Union Nationale	UN	Ashok Jugnauth		2014

The alliances

Former alliances

Name	Leader	Parties	Elections participated	Founded	Dissolved	Colours	Emblem
Independence Party	Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam	PTR/IFB/CAM	1976 general election, 1967 general election
Parti de l'Alliance Nationale	Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam	PTR/CAM/PMSD	1982 general election
Alliance MMM/PSM	Sir Anerood Jugnauth	MMM/MSP	1982 general election
MSM/Travailliste	Sir Anerood Jugnauth	MSM/PTR	1983 general election
L'Union MMM/MTD/FFS	Prem Nababsing	MMM/MTD/FFS	1987 general election
Alliance MSM - Mauritius Labour Party	Sir Anerood Jugnauth	MSM/PTR	1987 general election, By-Election 1989
Alliance Parti Travailliste-PMSD	Navin Ramgoolam	PTR/PMSD	1991 general election
Alliance MSM-MMM	Sir Anerood Jugnauth	MSM/MMM	1991 general election, By-Election 1992
Alliance PTr-MMM	Navin Ramgoolam	PTR/MMM	By-Election 1995, 1995 general election
Alliance MSM-RMM	Sir Anerood Jugnauth	MSM/	By-Election 1995, 1995 general election
Federation MSM-MMM		MSM/MMM	By-Election 1999
Alliance Parti Travailliste-PMXD	Navin Ramgoolam	PTR/PMXD	By-Election 1999, 2000 general election
Alliance MSM-MMM	Paul Berenger	MSM/MMM	2000 general election, By-Election 2003
Alliance Sociale	Navin Ramgoolam	PTR/PMXD/VF/MR/MMSM	2005 general election			Red
Alliance MSM/MMM	Paul Berenger	MSM/MMM	2005 general election
Alliance MMM/UN/PMSD	Paul Berenger	MSM/UN/PMSD	By-Election 2009
Alliance de L'Avenir	Navin Ramgoolam	PTR/PMSD/MSM	2010 general election	2010	6 June 2014	Blue, White and Red	60px
Alliance du Coeur	Paul Berenger	MMM/UN/MMSD	2010 general election			Purple
Remake 2000	Sir Anerood Jugnauth	MMM/MSM	None		24 April 2014	Purple and Orange
Alliance de l'unité et de la modernité	Navin Ramgoolam	PTR/MMM	2014 general election	2014	2014	Red and Purple

Actual alliances

Name	Founded	Leader	Parties	Elections	Colours	Emblem	Website
Alliance Lepep	2014	Sir Anerood Jugnauth	MSM/PMSD/ML	2014 general election	Orange, White and Blue

Parties in Rodrigues

Political parties in Rodrigues island.

Name		Abbr.	Leader	Emblem	Actual alliance	Website
	Front Patriotique Rodrigues	FPR	Johnson Roussety		None
	Mouvement Rodriguais	MR	Gaëtan Jabeemissar		None
	Organisation du Peuple Rodriguais	OPR	Serge Clair		None

See also

• Politics of Mauritius
• List of political parties by country