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 ...

is a Marxist–Leninist

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 partie ...

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

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, 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 No ...

() is legally allowed to hold effective power. Vietnamese elections conform to the

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principle used in communist countries. The united front in Vietnam is called the Vietnamese Fatherland Front and is led by the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Other parties

Only the

is legal to operate in Vietnam, other parties exist outside Vietnam or secretly operate inside Vietnam: * Bloc 8406 () (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 in-exile that is based in the United States. The organization's chairman is Nguyen Si Binh and its vice chairman ...

(PAP) () (outside Vietnam) * Vietnamese Nationalist Party (VNQDĐ) () (outside Vietnam) * Vietnam Reform Revolutionary Party (Việt Tân) () (outside Vietnam, prohibited in Vietnam) * Vietnam Populist Party (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 ()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 acquire ...

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 S ...

() (disbanded in 1963) * Socialist Party of Vietnam () (disbanded in 1988)

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Other parties

Defunct parties

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