This is a list of political parties campaigning for self-government. Listed here are parties with a specific ethnic minority background or regional parties active on a national level promoting more autonomy or independence for their region. Only parliamentary (including regional parliaments or councils) or former parliamentary parties are listed. Some of these parties are members or observers of the European Free Alliance

European Free Alliance

The European Free Alliance is a European political party. It consists of various national-level political parties in Europe which advocate either full political independence , or some form of devolution or self-governance for their country or region...

–Democratic Party of the Peoples of Europe (EFA–DPPE).

Canada

Quebec: See the List of political parties in Quebec, since most Quebec parties are regionalist.

Republic of China (Taiwan)

Taiwan Solidarity Union

Taiwan Solidarity Union

The Taiwan Solidarity Union is a political party in the Republic of China which advocates Taiwan independence. It was officially founded on July 24, 2001 and is considered part of the Pan-Green Coalition. Unlike the Democratic Progressive Party, its larger companion party in the Pan-Green...

 - seeks creation of a "Republic of Taiwan"

Democratic Progressive Party

Democratic Progressive Party

The Democratic Progressive Party is a political party in Taiwan, and the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition. Founded in 1986, DPP is the first meaningful opposition party in Taiwan. It has traditionally been associated with strong advocacy of human rights and a distinct Taiwanese identity,...

 - seeks international recognition of the current de jure independence of "Republic of China, Taiwan" as stipulated in articles of the 1933 Montevideo Convention.

Croatia

Party of Danube Serbs

Party of Danube Serbs

The Party of Danube Serbs is a Serb minority political party in Croatia. It was formed as the Serbian Radical Party of the Republic of Serbian Krajina by Rade Leskovac in the early 1990s...

- advocates bigger autonomy in decision making for the Serbs in Eastern Slavonia or Joint Council of Municipalities

Joint Council of Municipalities

Joint Council of Municipalities is a body that aligns the interests of the Serb ethnic community in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia in the Osijek-Baranja and Vukovar-Syrmia County, coordinate the law and provides initiatives and proposals to the institutions of government,...

Istrian Democratic Assembly

Istrian Democratic Assembly

The Istrian Democratic Assembly is a Croatian regional and social liberal political party in Istria. The hyphenated abbreviation IDS-DDI is most commonly used....

- advocates bigger autonomy in decision making for Istria county

Istria County

Istria County is the westernmost county of Croatia which includes the biggest part of the Istrian peninsula . The area of the county is called Istra in Croatian and Slovene...

Finland

Swedish speaking: see the List of political parties in Åland, since all Åland parties are regionalist.

Basque Country

• Abertzaleen Batasuna
  Abertzaleen Batasuna
  Abertzaleen Batasuna is a Basque political party in France.It is the largest Basque nationalist party of the French Basque Country gathering around 10% of the votes in this territory. Its immediate goal is the establishment of a Pays Basque département out of Pyrénées-Atlantiques...
  
  
• Batasuna
  Batasuna
  Batasuna was a Basque nationalist political party based mainly in Spain, where it was outlawed in 2003, after a court ruling declared proven that the party was financing ETA with public money. Batasuna is included in the "European Union list of terrorist persons and organizations" as a component...
  
  
• Eusko Alkartasuna
  Eusko Alkartasuna
  Eusko Alkartasuna is a Basque nationalist political party operating in Spain and France. The Basque language name means Basque Solidarity and abbreviated as EA. The party describes itself as a Basque nationalist, democratic, popular, progressive and non-denominational party...
  
  
• Partido Nacionalista Vasco

Brittany

• Union Démocratique Bretonne
• Breton Party
  Parti Breton
  The Breton Party is a social-democratic and social-liberal nationalist party which aspires to the creation of an independent "Republic of Brittany", within the European Union.-Program:...
  
  
• Emgann
  Emgann
  Emgann is a left wing Breton nationalist movement in Brittany, France. Founded in 1982, it soon became one of the principal groups agitating for Breton independence...
  
  

Martinique

• Mouvement indépendantiste martiniquais
  Martinican Independence Movement
  The Martinican Independence Movement or MIM is a left-wing political party in the overseas department of Martinique, founded July 1, 1978 by Alfred Marie-Jeanne with the aim of securing "the decolonization and independence of Martinique"...
  
  
• Parti progressiste martiniquais
  Martinican Progressive Party
  The Martinican Progressive Party is a Martinican political party founded on March 22, 1958 by poet Aimé Césaire. The party favors the autonomy of Martinique within France, unlike the nationalist MIM. The party has one seat in the French National Assembly, Serge Letchimy, deputy from...
  
  

India

• Telangana Rashtra Samithi
  Telangana Rashtra Samithi
  Telangana Rashtra Samithi is a regional separatist political party in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.-Ideology:Telangana Rashtra Samithi's main aim is to separate Telangana region from Andhra Pradesh and to regain regional autonomy as it existed before the formation of Andhra Pradesh...
  
  
• Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
  Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
  Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is a state political party in the state Jharkhand, India. It has a strength of 2 in the 15th Lok Sabha. Shibu Soren is the president of JMM...
  
   (successful)
• Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
  Gorkha Janmukti Morcha
  Gorkha Janmukti Morcha is a registered political party which campaigns for the creation of a separate state within India, out of districts in the north of West Bengal...
  
  

Aosta Valley

• Valdotanian Union
  Valdotanian Union
  The Valdotanian Union is a regionalist-centrist Italian political party active in Aosta Valley. Its leaders are Ego Perron, party president, and Augusto Rollandin, President of the Region....
  
  
• Edelweiss Aosta Valley
  Edelweiss Aosta Valley
  Edelweiss Aosta Valley is a Christian-democratic and centrist Italian political party active in Aosta Valley.It was founded in 2001 by the merger of the Autonomists and the Autonomist Federation...
  
  
• Autonomist Federation
  Autonomist Federation
  The Autonomist Federation is a centrist, social-liberal and social-democratic Italian political party active in Aosta Valley...
  
  
• Valdotanian Renewal
  Valdotanian Renewal
  Valdotanian Renewal was a social-liberal Italian political party.It was founded in 2006 by a split from the Valdotanian Union , led by former President of Region Carlo Perrin...
  
  
• Lively Aosta Valley
  Lively Aosta Valley
  Lively Aosta Valley was a social-liberal Italian political party active in Aosta Valley. It was founded in 2005 by a left-wing split from the Valdotanian Union and its leader was Roberto Louvin....
  
  
• Lega Nord Valle d'Aosta
  Lega Nord Valle d'Aosta
  Lega Nord Valle d'Aosta is a regionalist political party in Italy which is the regional section of Lega Nord in Aosta Valley...
  
  

Trentino

• Daisy Civic List
  Daisy Civic List
  The Daisy Civic List was a regionalist Christian-democratic and centrist Italian political party active in Trentino.-History:It was founded in 1998 by Lorenzo Dellai and other local politicians active in several centrist parties, both from the centre-left and the centre-right at the national...
  
  
• Lega Nord Trentino
  Lega Nord Trentino
  Lega Nord Trentino is a regionalist political party in Italy which is the provincial section of Lega Nord in Trentino. The current national secretary is Maurizio Fugatti, deputy to the Italian Parliament...
  
  
• Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party
  Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party
  The Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party is a regionalist Christian-democratic Italian political party based in Trentino.-History:The party was founded in 1948 as Trentino Tyrolean People's Party . In 1982 a split between the conservative wing, led by Franco Tretter, and the centrist wing of the...
  
  
• Autonomist Trentino
  Autonomist Trentino
  Autonomist Trentino is a regionalist Christian-democratic Italian political party based in Trentino.It was founded in 2002 by a split from the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party of those members who contested the party new alliance with the centre-left-coalition...
  
  
• Ladin Autonomist Union
  Ladin Autonomist Union
  The Ladin Autonomist Union is a minor progressive political party in the province of Trentino, Italy, which seeks to represent the Ladin minority in the Province and especially that living in Fascia Valley...
  
  

South Tyrol

• South Tyrolean People's Party
  South Tyrolean People's Party
  The South Tyrolean People's Party is a regionalist Christian democratic political party active in the Italian province of South Tyrol.Founded in 1945, the SVP represents the German-speaking population of the province, as well as Ladin speakers. Since the first election of the Provincial Council in...
  
  
• Union for South Tyrol
  Union for South Tyrol
  The Citizens' Union is a separatist, nationalist and conservative political party active in South Tyrol committed to the German-speaking minority and its right to self-determination...
  
  
• The Libertarians
  The Libertarians
  The Libertarians is a liberal and nationalist political party in the Italian province of South Tyrol committed to the German-speaking minority....
  
  
• South Tyrolean Freedom
  South Tyrolean Freedom
  The South Tyrolean Freedom is a separatist German-speaking political party active in South Tyrol committed to the reunification of South Tyrol with the state of Tyrol within Austria....
  
  
• Political Movement Ladins
• Democratic Party of South Tyrol
  Democratic Party of South Tyrol
  The Democratic Party of South Tyrol is a minor regionalist liberal, green and social-democratic political party active in South Tyrol.The party was founded in 1997, as a continuation of the Social Democratic Party of South Tyrol, and was led by Roland Girardi...
  
  
• Lega Nord Sud Tirolo
  Lega Nord Sud Tirolo
  Lega Nord Sud Tirolo/Lega Nord Südtirol is a regionalist political party in Italy which is the provincial section of Lega Nord in South Tyrol...
  
  

Veneto

• Liga Veneta
  Liga Veneta
  Liga Veneta is a regionalist political party based in Veneto, combining Venetism and fiscal federalism. Liga Veneta is by far the largest party in Veneto and the party of Luca Zaia, President of Veneto since March 2010.It was the first party of its kind in Northern Italy, predating Umberto...
  
  
• North-East Project
  North-East Project
  North-East Project is a Venetist, fiscal federalist and libertarian Italian political party based in Veneto, demanding larger autonomy, if not complete independence for the region.-History:...
  
  
• Liga Veneta Repubblica
• Venetians in Movement
  Venetians in Movement
  Venetians Movement is an Venetist separatist cross-party political movement which aims to promote independence regardless of individual political positions such as left or right, in a democratic and nonviolent way...
  
  
• Venetian National Party
  Venetian National Party
  The Venetian National Party was a Venetist, libertarian and separatist political party active in Veneto, Lombardy and Friuli-Venezia Giulia...
  
  

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

• Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia is a regionalist political party in Italy which is the regional section of Lega Nord in Friuli-Venezia Giulia....
  
  
• Friuli Movement
  Friuli Movement
  Friuli Movement is a regionalist political party active in Friuli, Italy since 1966.The party is currently active, but has lost importance...
  
  
• Giulian Front
  Giulian Front
  Giulian Front is a regionalist political party active in the Province of Trieste, Italy.Formed in the mid 1990s, the party strives for the independence of Trieste from Italy , in line with a tradition started with the Independence Front for the Free Giulian State after World War II and continued...
  
  

Sardinia

• Sardinia Nation
  Sardinia Nation
  Sardinia Nation is a minor separatist and democratic-socialist political party in Sardinia, Italy. Its leader is Bustianu Cumpostu.-History:...
  
  
• Sardinian Reformers
  Sardinian Reformers
  The Sardinian Reformers is a liberal and Christian-democratic political party in Sardinia based in Sardinia and led by Massimo Fantola....
  
  
• Sardinian People's Party
  Sardinian People's Party
  The Party of Sardinian People – Fortza Paris is a regionalist political party in Sardinia.The party's self-proclaimed ideology comprises "all what the 20th Century had it good", including Christian democracy, liberalism, social democracy and federalism, but it is basically a Christian-democratic...
  
  
• Sardinian Democratic Union
  Sardinian Democratic Union
  The Sardinian Democratic Union – Nationalist Project is a regionalist Christian-democratic political party in Sardinia...
  
  
• Sardinian Action Party
  Sardinian Action Party
  The Sardinian Action Party is a regionalist social-democratic political party in Sardinia, which has recently sided with The People of Freedom, the largest centre-right party in Italy.-History:...
  
  
• Independence Republic of Sardinia
  Independence Republic of Sardinia
  Independence Republic of Sardinia is a social-democratic and non-violent separatist political party in Sardinia...
  
  

Southern Italy

• Movement for Autonomy
  Movement for Autonomy
  The Movement for Autonomies is a regionalist Christian democratic political party in Italy. It demands economic development and greater autonomy for Sicily, mainly, and for other regions of Southern Italy...
  
  
• Federalist Alliance
  Federalist Alliance
  The Federalist Alliance is a federalist Italian political party, which is the emanation of Lega Nord in Central and Southern Italy....
  
  
• Lega Sud Ausonia
  Lega Sud Ausonia
  Lega Sud Ausonia is a minor independentist political party in Italy.The party was founded in 1991, as the sister-party of Lega Nord in Southern Italy, and is led by Gianfranco Vestuto. Similarly to Lega Nord's goal of establishing an independent Padania, Lega Sud wants to establish an independent...
  
  
• Southern Action League
  Southern Action League
  The Southern Action League is a regionalist national-conservative Italian political party active in Apulia and especially in the Province of Taranto....
  
  

Pakistan

• Balochistan National Party
  Balochistan National Party
  The Balochistan National Party or Balochistan National Party is a political party in Balochistan, Pakistan...
  
  
• Awami National Party
  Awami National Party
  The Awami National Party is an Pashtun nationalist, socialist, centre-left political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International...
  
  
• Pukhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party

Asturias

• Asturian Nationalist Unity
  Unidá
  Unidá is an Asturian federation of parties formed by Izquierda Asturiana, members coming from Andecha Astur , and by the local parties Andecha por Carreño, Asturianistes por Nava and Asturianistes por Piloña, forming a local series of groups with the name of Unidá such as Unidá-Avilés or...
  
   (Unidá Nacionalista Asturiana)
• Asturian Solidarity
  Andecha Astur
  thumb|"[[Asturina cola estrella bermeya]]". A [[Red star|socialist]] and nationalist flag of [[Asturias]] used by Andecha AsturAndecha Astur is an Asturian nationalist leftist political party of Spain.-History:The party was founded in 1990...
  
   (Andecha Astur)

Basque Country

• Aralar
  Aralar Party
  Aralar is a Basque socialist and separatist political party in Spain. The party is led by Patxi Zabaleta. It is opposed to the violent struggle of ETA....
  
  
• Eusko Alkartasuna
  Eusko Alkartasuna
  Eusko Alkartasuna is a Basque nationalist political party operating in Spain and France. The Basque language name means Basque Solidarity and abbreviated as EA. The party describes itself as a Basque nationalist, democratic, popular, progressive and non-denominational party...
  
  
• EHAK
• Partido Nacionalista Vasco

Catalonia

• Convergence and Unity (Convergència i Unió), coalition of:
  • Democratic Convergence of Catalonia
    Democratic Convergence of Catalonia
    The Democratic Convergence of Catalonia is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. Together with Democratic Union of Catalonia, it forms part of the Convergence and Union coalition. It is affiliated with the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party and with the Liberal International...
    
     (Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya)
  • Democratic Union of Catalonia
    Democratic Union of Catalonia
    The Democratic Union of Catalonia is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. Together with the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia, it is part of the Convergence and Union coalition.It describes itself as Catalan nationalist and Christian Democrat....
    
     (Unió Democràtica de Catalunya)
• Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya
  Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya
  The Republican Left of Catalonia is a left wing Catalan independentist political party in Spain. It is also the main sponsor of the independence movement from France and Spain in the territories known among Catalan nationalists as Països Catalans...
  
  
• Initiative for Catalonia Greens
  Initiative for Catalonia Greens
  Initiative for Catalonia Greens is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. It was formed as a merger of Iniciativa per Catalunya and Els Verds. IC had been an alliance led by Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya and was the equivalent of Izquierda Unida in Catalonia...
  
   (Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds), formerly in coalition with Izquierda Unida
  United Left (Spain)
  The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain...
  
  

Scotland

• Scottish National Party
  Scottish National Party
  The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....
  
  
• Scottish Socialist Party
  Scottish Socialist Party
  The Scottish Socialist Party is a left-wing Scottish political party. Positioning itself significantly to the left of Scotland's centre-left parties, the SSP campaigns on a socialist economic platform and for Scottish independence....
  
  
• Scottish Green Party
  Scottish Green Party
  The Scottish Green Party is a green party in Scotland. It has two MSPs in the devolved Scottish Parliament, Alison Johnstone, representing Lothian, and Patrick Harvie, for Glasgow.-Organisation:...
  
  
• Scottish Independence Party

Northern Ireland

A region disputed between the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 and Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

.

see politics of Northern Ireland

Nationalist/Republican -

• Sinn Féin
  Sinn Féin
  Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...
  
  
• Social Democratic and Labour Party
  Social Democratic and Labour Party
  The Social Democratic and Labour Party is a social-democratic, Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. Its basic party platform advocates Irish reunification, and the further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Republican Sinn Féin
  Republican Sinn Féin
  Republican Sinn Féin or RSF is an unregisteredAlthough an active movement, RSF is not registered as a political party in either Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland. minor political party operating in Ireland. It emerged in 1986 as a result of a split in Sinn Féin...
  
  
• Workers' Party of Ireland
  Workers' Party of Ireland
  The Workers' Party is a left-wing republican political party in Ireland. Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970 after a split within the party, adopting its current name in 1982....
  
  

Unionist/Loyalist -

• Ulster Unionist Party
  Ulster Unionist Party
  The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
  
  
• Democratic Unionist Party
  Democratic Unionist Party
  The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...
  
  
• Progressive Unionist Party
  Progressive Unionist Party
  The Progressive Unionist Party is a small unionist political party in Northern Ireland. It was formed from the Independent Unionist Group operating in the Shankill area of Belfast, becoming the PUP in 1979...
  
  
• United Kingdom Unionist Party
• Ulster Third Way
  Ulster Third Way
  The Ulster Third Way is the Northern Ireland branch of the Third Way and is organised by David Kerr, who had previously campaigned as an 'independent Unionist' as well as for the British National Front.As well as sharing the Third Way's aims U3W is committed to securing independence...
  
   - Seeking an independent Northern Irish state separate from the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom

See also

• List of political parties
• Political parties of minorities
  Political parties of minorities
  Ethnic parties aim to represent an ethnic group in a political system, be it a sovereign state or a subnational entity. An alternate designation is 'Political parties of minorities', but they should not be mistaken with regionalist or separatist parties, whose purpose is territorial autonomy.-...
  
  
• List of active autonomist and secessionist movements

External links

• http://www.broadleft.org/natliber.htm Comprehensive list of Leftist Movements for National, Ethnic Liberation or Regional Autonomy