Syrian Communist Party (United)
| الحزب الشيوعي السوري (الموحد) Syrian Communist Party (united) |
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|---|---|
| Party leader | Hanin Nimir |
| founding | 1986 (founded in 1924 as the Syrian-Lebanese Communist Party , 1944 as the Syrian Communist Party ) |
| Headquarters | Damascus |
| Alignment | left , communism |
| Colours) | Red and yellow |
| Parliament seats | 3 out of 250 in the People's Council |
| International connections | International meeting of communist and workers' parties |
| Website | www.an-nour.com |
The Syrian Communist Party (united) ( French Parti communiste syrien - unifié , Arabic الحزب الشيوعي السوري - الموحد, DMG al-Ḥizb aš-Šuyūʿī as-Sūrī - al-muwaḥḥad ), also known as the Syrian Communist Party for short , is a political party in Syria .
The party grew out of the split within the Syrian Communist Party in 1986 and was the pro Perestroika -Faktion under Yusuf Faisal founded (the anti-perestroika faction was the Communist Party of Khalid Bakdash ). At the time of the Damascus Spring in 2000, the party was allowed to publish a newspaper called an-Nour ('The Light').
The Eleventh Party Congress, held in March 2011, re-elected Hanin Nimir as the party's first secretary. In the parliamentary elections in Syria in 2007 , the party won 3 seats. In the 2012 elections , the party again received 3 seats. The party is a coalition partner of the Ba'ath Party in the National Progress Front .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.an-nour.com/ ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ SANA (news agency) ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Waziruddin, S. Saleh: Communist Parties Win 11 Seats in Syrian Parliamentary Elections . June 18, 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
