Political flags in Guinea Bissau

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Known parties and political organizations:

• Aliança Popular Unida (APU: United People’s Alliance)
• Assembleia do Povo Unido - Partido Democrático da Guiné-Bissau (APU-PDGB: United People’s Assembly - Democratic Party of Guinea-Bissau)
• Frente Democrática (F.D.: Democratic Front)
• Frente Democrática Social (F.D.S.: Democratic Social Front)
• Frente de Luta pela Independência Nacional da Guiné (FLING: Struggle Front for the National Independence of Guinea)
• Fórum Cívico Guineense - Social Democracia (F.C.G.-S.D.: Guinean Civic Forum - Social Democracy)
• Liga Guineense de Protecção Ecológica (LIPE: Guinean League for Ecological Protection)
• Movimento Democrático Guineense (M.D.G.: Guinean Democratic Movement)
• Movimento para a Unidade e Democracia (MUDe: Movement for Unity and Democracy)
• Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (P.A.I.G.C.: African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde)
• Partido da Convergência Democrática (P.C.D.: Democratic Convergence Party)
• Partido Democrático do Progresso (P.D.P.: Progress Democratic Party)
• Partido Democrático Socialista (PDS: Socialist Democratic Party)
• Partido do Manifesto do Povo (P.M.P.: Party of the People’s Manifest)
• Partido para a Renovação e Desenvolvimento (P.R.D.: Party for Renewal and Development)
• Partido da Renovação Social (P.R.S.: Social Renewal Party)
• Partido Socialista da Guiné-Bissau (P.S.G.B.: Socialist Party of Guinea-Bissau)
• Partido dos Trabalhadores da Guiné-Bissau (P.T.G.B.: Guinea Bissau Workers’ Party)
• Partido da Unidade Nacional (P.U.N.: Party of National Union)
• Partido Unido Social Democrata (PUSD: United Social Democrat Party)
• Plataforma Unida (P.U.: United Platform)
• Resistência da Guiné-Bissau - Movimento Bafatá (R.G.B.: Guinea-Bissau Resistance - Bafatá Movement)
• União Nacional para o Desenvolvimento e Progresso (U.N.D.P.: National Union for Development and Progress)
• União Eleitoral (U.E.: Electoral Union)
• União para a Mudança (U.M.: Union for Change)
• Unido coalition

About political flags in Guinea Bissau

• Two Bissau ballot papers with flags

See also:

• Mouvement Démocratique des Forces de Casamance, independentist party of Senegal’s Casamance, with some integrationist leanings
• Guinea Bissau
• Flags in politics

Other sites:

• Politics of Guinea-Bissau, List of political parties in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau legislative_election, 2004, and Guinea-Bissau legislative election, 2008. All at the English Wikipedia and its Portuguese and French counterparts.
  reported by António Martins, 02 Mar 2010 and 06 Mar 2010

Two Bissau ballot papers with flags

Here is an excellent source (second-hand) showing the flags of all political parties that took part in Parliamentary Elections in Guine-Bissau in 2008.
Valentin Poposki, 19 Feb 2010

See the full list at the Ace Project Bissau Guinea page. (There’s similar stuff for other countries, too.) Larger images are available from the original source:

• Eleição para a Assembleia Nacional Popular : Bissau : Círculo Eleitoral N.º 28 (28th Constituency of Bissau for the Parliament Election): complete ballot paper and enlarged details (top with heading and bottom)
• Eleição para a Assembleia Nacional Popular : Bissau : Círculo Eleitoral N.º 29 (29th Constituency of Bissau for the Parliament Election); the number is hardly visible, maybe it is 23): complete ballot paper

I believe that they are from the same 2004 elections, but from different electoral districts (as indicated in the header of the ballot paper, districts 28 and 29), so some different parties were running in each.
Željko Heimer, 20 Feb 2010

Yes, as expected, not all parties run for all constituencies; also, some of the parties are allied in a pre-announced post-electoral coalition UM - União para a Mudança.
António Martins, 02 Mar 2010

The ballot papers in question do not match any of the candidate party lists shown in Wikipedia for either 2004 and 2008.
António Martins, 04 Mar 2010

Unido coalition

According to “A Transição Democrática na Guiné-Bissau : Um Parto Dificil” article by Carlos Cardoso in Lusotopie 1995: 259, there was a politically heterogenous Unido coalition, created in November 1992, formed by P.C.D., P.D.P., P.D.P., and FLING
António Martins, 22 Mar 2010