Leftist Parties of Nicaragua

PARTY			PERIODICALS	CONTACT	IDEOL.	INTERNAT.	ELECTION parl. '01	OTHER
Communist Party of Nicaragua	Partido Comunista de Nicaragua	PCdeN	Avance	tel.: +505-2-495047	com.	ex-SU	-	f. 1970 as split from Nicaraguan Socialist Party
Ecological Green Party	Partido Verde Ecologista			e-mail	green	FGPA	-	f. 2003
Marxist-Leninist Party of Nicaragua	Partido Marxista Leninista de Nicaragua	PMLN	Prensa Proletaria	tel.: +505-2-22594	ex-stal.	ex-Alb.	-	f. 1967 as Popular Action Movement - Marxist-Leninist (MAP-ML)
Movement of Revolutionary Unity	Movimiento de Unidad Revolucionaria	MUR	Unidad Revolucionaria				-	f. 1989
Nicaraguan Environmentalist Movement	Movimiento Ambientalista Nicaraguense			e-mail	green		-
Nicaraguan Socialist Party	Partido Socialista Nicaragüense	PSN	El Popular	fax: +505-2-662936	soc. dem., ex-com.	ex-WMT, FSP	-	f. 1944
Revolutionary Workers' Party	Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores	PRT	El Trabajador Centroamericano	e-mail	tro.	LSI, ex-CITO	-	f. 1975 as Revolutionary Marxist League (LMR)
Sandinist National Liberation Front	Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional	FSLN	Visión Sandinista	e-mail	left. soc.	SI, Cu., FSP	42.32%	f. 1961
Sandinist Renovation Movement	Movimiento Renovador Sandinista	MRS		fax: +505-2-780268	soc. dem.		-	f. 1995 as split from FSLN
Parties probably disbanded Revolutionary Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, FAR), Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Front (Frente Revolucionario de Obreros y Campesinos, FROC)