Names of the Political Parties of
Somali Republic (1960-1969)

 

Political Parties

• Somali Youth League(Liga Dei Giovani Somali)SYL
  Mogdishu; 1943 forms the government;Nationalist;repudiates tribal and religious distinctions and stands for the peaceful re-union of all somali territories.
  
  
• Somali National Congress
  f.1963 by former members of somali youth league,National Somali League and Somali United Party
  
  
• Somali Democratic Union
  Mogadishu;f.1962 an alliance of the United Somali party,the Somali National League and the Greater Somali League
  
  
• The independent Constitutional Somali Party(H.D.M.S)(Partito Constituzionale Independente)
  Strong in south Somali
  
  
• National Somali League
  stands for union with French Somaliland ,part of Ethiopia and the Northern Frontier province of Kenya
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• Somali united Party:
  f.1959;formed by the people in areas to extreme north-west and north-east of former british Somaliland
  
  
• Liberal Somali Youth Party(P.L.G.S)(partito Liberale dei Giovani Somali)
  
  
• The Greater Somali League:
  Mogadishu;f.1958 formed from SYL dissidents;boycotted 1959 elections;stood for complete integration of all Somali territories.
  
  
• Other Parties:
  union of the youth of Benadir
  The Somali Fichirin youth
  Unione Musulmana
  Unione Nazionale Somala
  Unione Nazionalista Africana
  Somalia National Front
  Unione Maniferro Nazionale
  Somalia republican Party(P.R.S)
  Somali African National Union(S.A.N.U )