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This article lists political parties in Vietnam.
Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
is a
Marxist–Leninist Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialect ...
one-party state A one-party state, single-party state, one-party system, or single-party system is a type of sovereign state in which only one political party has the right to form the government, usually based on the existing constitution. All other parties ...
based on
democratic centralism Democratic centralism is a practice in which political decisions reached by voting processes are binding upon all members of the political party. It is mainly associated with Leninism, wherein the party's political vanguard of professional revo ...
. This means that only one
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
, the
Communist Party of Vietnam The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), also known as the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), is the founding and sole legal party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Founded in 1930 by Hồ Chí Minh, the CPV became the ruling party of North ...
() is legally allowed to hold effective power. Vietnamese elections conform to the
popular front A popular front is "any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties", including liberal and social democratic ones, "united for the defense of democratic forms" against "a presumed Fascist assault". More generally, it is "a coalition ...
principle used in communist countries. The united front in Vietnam is called the
Vietnamese Fatherland Front The Vietnamese Fatherland Front ( vi, Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam) is an umbrella group of mass movements in Vietnam aligned with the Communist Party of Vietnam forming the Vietnamese government. It was founded in February 1977 by the m ...
and is led by the Communist Party of Vietnam.


Other parties

Only the
Communist Party of Vietnam The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), also known as the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), is the founding and sole legal party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Founded in 1930 by Hồ Chí Minh, the CPV became the ruling party of North ...
is legal to operate in Vietnam, other parties exist outside Vietnam or secretly operate inside Vietnam: *
Bloc 8406 Bloc 8406 ( vi, Khối 8406) is a small unified coalition of political groups in Vietnam that advocates for democratic reforms in Vietnam. It is named after the date of the group's Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam 2006 ( vi, Tuyên N ...
() (prohibited in Vietnam) *Committee for a Workers International (prohibited in Vietnam) *
Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam The Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam (in vi, Đại Việt Quốc dân đảng), often known simply as or ĐVQDĐ, was a nationalist and anti-communist political party and militant organisation that was active in Vietnam in the 20th century. ...
(DVQDĐ) () (outside Vietnam) *
People's Action Party of Vietnam The People's Action Party of Vietnam ( vi, Đảng Nhân Dân Hành Động Việt Nam) is a Vietnamese anti-communist organization exile, in-exile that is based in the United States. The organization's chairman is Nguyen Si Binh and its vice cha ...
(PAP) () (outside Vietnam) * Vietnamese Nationalist Party (VNQDĐ) () (outside Vietnam) * Vietnam Reform Revolutionary Party (Việt Tân) () (outside Vietnam, prohibited in Vietnam) *
Vietnam Populist Party The Vietnam Populist Party (VPP), also known in Vietnamese as “Đảng Vì Dân”, is a political party in Vietnam, formed on January 1, 2006. The party campaigns for democracy in Vietnam. Vietnam is a one-party state. Despite the party's non- ...
(ĐVD) () (outside Vietnam, prohibited in Vietnam) Many members of these parties have been jailed in Vietnam under the charge of "attempt to overthrow the government". Political rights are very limited in Vietnam, especially the right to change the form of government.


Defunct parties

*Cochinese Democratic Party *Constitutional Party *
Democratic Party of Vietnam The Democratic Party of Vietnam ( vi, Đảng Dân chủ Việt Nam) was a political party in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (later only North Vietnam). It was founded on 30 July 1944 to unite petite bourgeoisie and intelligentsia in support ...
()Länder der Erde. Politisch-ökonomisches Handbuch. Berlin st 1971. (disbanded in 1988) *Forces for National Reconciliation *
International Communist League (Vietnam) The International Communist League (LCI) was a Trotskyist political party in Vietnam. It was founded as the October Group in 1932, by a split in the Indochinese Bolshevik-Leninist Group, which also produced the Struggle Group. The group acquired ...
*
National Social Democratic Front The National Social Democratic Front ( vi, Mặt trận Quốc gia Dân chủ Xã hội), later named the Social Democratic Alliance ( vi, Liên minh Dân chủ Xã hội), was a South Vietnamese political party which was effectively a federation ...
() (disbanded in 1975) *
Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party The Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party ( vi, Cần lao Nhân vị Cách Mạng Ðảng / Đảng Cần lao Nhân vị), often simply called the Cần Lao Party, was a Vietnamese political party, formed in the early 1950s by the President of ...
() (disbanded in 1963) *
Socialist Party of Vietnam The Socialist Party of Vietnam ( vi, Đảng Xã hội Việt Nam) was a political party in Vietnam which existed from 1946 to 1988. It was founded with the official aim of uniting "patriotic intelligentsia". Along with the Democratic Party of Vi ...
() (disbanded in 1988)


See also

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Politics of Vietnam The politics of Vietnam is dominated by a single party, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). The President of Vietnam is the head of state, and the Prime Minister of Vietnam is the head of government, both of these are separate from the G ...
*
List of political parties by country This is a list of ruling political parties by country, in the form of a table with a link to an overview of political parties in each country and showing which party system is dominant in each country. A political party is a political organizat ...


References

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Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
Political parties A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or pol ...
Political parties A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or pol ...