List of political parties in Syria
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This article lists political parties in Syria. Article 8 of the old constitution provided that "the Arab Socialist Baath Party leads society and the state". Since 1972, other parties that accept the leadership role of the Baath Party and support the government's socialist and Arab nationalist orientation have been allowed to operate as members of the National Progressive Front. In 2005, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party was licensed. It is the first neither socialist nor Pan-Arab legal political party to be legalized. While some socialist and liberal opposition parties now enjoy a limited degree of toleration, Kurdish and Assyrian parties remain more repressed, and the ban on religious parties is very strictly enforced. During the Syrian uprising a New Parties Law established a new constitution. It gave the right to create Political Parties outside the National Progressive Front.
Political parties and organizations [edit]
- National Progressive Front:
- Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (governing party)
- Arab Socialist Movement
- Arab Socialist Union Party of Syria
- Syrian Communist Party (Khalid Bakdash faction)
- Syrian Communist Party (Yusuf Faisal faction)
- Social Democratic Unionists
- Socialist Unionists
- Democratic Socialist Unionist Party
- Arabic Democratic Unionist Party
- National Vow Movement
- Other Licenced parties (As 19 June 2012 ): [1]
- National Democratic Solidarity Party (Al Tadamon National Democratic Party)
- Syrian Democratic Party (Al Tadamon Arab Democratic Party)
- National Development Party
- Al-Ansar Party
- Democratic Al-Taliyeh Party (Al Talia'a Democratic Party)
- Al-Shabab Reform Party (National Youth for Justice and Development)
- Syrian Al-Shabab Reform Party (Syrian National Youth Party)
- Syrian Reform and Justice Party
- Syria Home (Souriya Al-Watan)
Under the Constitution of Syria approved in 2012, a licensed party must have at least 50 founding members, aged 25 or over, who have been Syrian nationals for more than 10 years, and are not members of any other party, Syrian or non-Syrian. [2]
- Unlicensed parties or campaigning organisations operating in Syria or from exile include:
- Syria For All
- Syrian Democratic People's Party
- Communist Labour Party
- Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party
- Arab Revolutionary Workers Party
- Reform Party of Syria
- Muslim Brotherhood of Syria
- Antiglobalization Activists in Syria
- Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria
- Assyrian Democratic Organization
- Syriac Union
- Democratic Arab Socialist Union
- Hizb ut-Tahrir
- National Salvation Front in Syria
- Movement for Justice and Development in Syria
- Democratic Islah Party
- Historical parties in Syria (now defunct):
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ Political Renaissance?, Syria Today, April 2012
- ^ Syria's New Parties: Modest Goals Against Baath Hold, Al Akhbar (Lebanon), 18 March 2012
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