Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)
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الحزب الشيوعي السوري Syrian Communist Party |
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| Party leader | Ammar Bagdache |
| founding | 1986 (originally Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party from 1924, 1944 Syrian Communist Party ) |
| Headquarters | Damascus |
| Alignment | left , communism , marxism-leninism |
| Colours) | Red and yellow |
| Parliament seats |
People's Council : 8/250 Council of Ministers : 1/35 |
| International connections | International meeting of communist and workers' parties |
| Website | www.syriancp.org |
The Syrian Communist Party ( French Parti communiste syrien , Arabic الحزب الشيوعي السوري al-Hizb al-Shujū'ī al-Sūrī ) is a political party in Syria .
The party grew out of the 1986 split within the Syrian Communist Party and was founded by the anti- perestroika faction under Khalid Bakdash (the pro-perestroika faction was the United Syrian Communist Party of Yusuf Faisal ). Chalid Bakdasch died in 1995, and his successor as general secretary of his party was his widow, Wisal Farha Bakdasch .
At the time of the Damascus Spring of 2000, the party was allowed to publish a newspaper called Sawt al-Schaab ("Voice of the People"). In the general election in Syria in 2007 , the party won 5 seats. In the 2012 elections the party won 3 seats and got 8 seats in the People's Council. The party is a coalition partner of the ruling Ba'ath Party in the National Progress Front . Members were expelled on charges of Trotskyism and they formed the Party of the People's Will .
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- ↑ Waziruddin, S. Saleh: Communist Parties Win 11 Seats in Syrian Parliamentary Elections . June 18, 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2012.