People's Party (Syria)
| حزب الشعب Parti popular |
|
|---|---|
| Party leader | Nazim al-Qudsi |
| founding | 1947 from the Bloc national |
| resolution | 1963 |
| Headquarters | Aleppo |
| Alignment | conservative , liberalism , social democracy |
| Colours) | yellow |
The People's Party ( Arabic حزب الشعب, DMG Ḥizb aš-Šaʿb ) was a Syrian political party that was active in the Syrian Republic during the 1940s and early 1960s .
The party was founded in 1948 as the main opposition party to the National Party . Both parties have their roots in the Bloc national , a national alliance that has played an important role in the fight against the French mandate . The Bloc national split in 1947 as a result of regional and personal rivalries between its leaders.
history
Former national bloc members of the northern Syrian cities ( Homs , Hama and Aleppo ) founded the People's Party in 1948 under the leadership of Nazim al-Qudsis and Ruschdi al-Kichyas . The party represented the interests of northern and central Syrian business people and landowners who favored an economic union with Iraq . It was sustained by the Aleppo aristocracy, who believed that Aleppo's traditional role as the trading center of the fertile crescent could only be restored through a federation with Hashemite Iraq . The party's goal was to break the dominance of the Damascene elite over Syrian politics .
The People's Party also enjoyed the support of the Atassi clan from Homs; Adnan al-Atassi , son of President Hashim al-Atassi , was one of the party's founding fathers. Hashim al-Atassi never became an official member, but he still supported the party through his son and nephew Faydi al-Atassi , who received several ministerial posts, including the Foreign Ministry. Their support ensured a strong base for the party in Homs. al-Hinnawi The party enjoyed its peak of influence in the period between 1949 and 1951 under the military regimes of al-Hinnawi and Adib al-Shishakli . After receiving a majority of the vote in the 1949 parliamentary election , the party argued with Ash Shishakli over control of the police force. Ash-Shishakli initiated a coup on November 28, 1951 , and imprisoned leading members of the party, including party founders Nazim al-Qudsi and Ruschdi al-Kichya; Ex-President Hashim al-Atassi was placed under house arrest. The People's Party was one of the forces that planned to overthrow Ash Shishakli two years later. She regained some of her cabinet influence and won a majority vote in the 1954 election .
When the Syrian Republic united with Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser to form the United Arab Republic , the People's Party, like all other Syrian parties, was forced to disband. After Syria split from the Union, the People's Party regained its parliamentary majority. The party leader Nazim al-Qudsi was elected president after the - this time nationwide - victory in the parliamentary elections in 1961 . He served in this office until the March 8th Revolution , when the Ba'ath Party came to power through a coup in 1963 .
In recent years there have been discussions about the revival of the People's Party after the requirements for membership of the National Progress Front were relaxed, but this did not materialize.
bibliography
- David Dean Commins: Historical dictionary of Syria . Scarecrow Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8108-4934-1 .
- Sami M. Moubayed : Damascus between democracy and dictatorship . University Press of America, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7618-1744-4 .
- Yaacov Ro'i: From encroachment to involvement: a documentary study of Soviet policy in the Middle East, 1945-1973 . Transaction Publishers, 1974, ISBN 978-0-470-73150-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Commins, 2004, pp. 214-215.
- ↑ a b Moubayed, 2002, p. Xiv.
- ↑ Ro'i, 1974, p. 359.
- ↑ Moubayed Sami : Syria's Ba'athists loosen the reins . In: Asia Times Online , April 26, 2005. Retrieved April 5, 2012.