Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)
Syrian Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي السوري | |
|---|---|
IMCWP[2] | |
| Colours | Red and yellow |
| People's Assembly | 3 / 250 |
| Party flag | |
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The Syrian Communist Party (
anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in Syria.[3][4][5] The party emerged from a split in the Syrian Communist Party in 1986, as formed by the anti-Perestroika faction led by Khalid Bakdash. Khalid Bakdash died in 1995 and was succeeded as secretary of his party faction by his widow, Wisal Farha Bakdash
.
At the time of the 2000 Damascus Spring, the party was able to publish a newspaper called Sawt al-Shaab ("Voice of the People").
Currently, the party's secretary general is Ammar Bakdash, who succeeded his mother in the party's leadership.
Mohammad Fayez al-Barasha is the party's only cabinet minister.[6]
Parliamentary elections
| Election year | # of overall seats won |
± |
|---|---|---|
2007
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5 / 250
|
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2012
|
8 / 250
|
 3
|
2016
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3 / 250
|
 5
|
| 2020 | 3 / 250
|
|
References
- ^ Orfali, Mohannad. "الحزب الشيوعي السوري". pnf.org.sy. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ^ "20 IMCWP, Participants List". SolidNet. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- S2CID 181902938.
- ^ Musalam, A., & Abdin, M. M. E. (2020). T The Role of Partisan Divisions in Political Life in the Syrian Arab Republic "Documentary study from the Syrian Communist Party". Tishreen University Journal- Arts and Humanities Sciences Series, 41(6).
- ^ Yonker, Carl C. "Comparing Radical Rivals: The Communists, the Baʿth, and the Kataʾib." The Rise and Fall of Greater Syria. De Gruyter, 2021. 17-21.
- ^ "Prime Minister's Office". Syrian Arab News Agency. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
External links
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- Official website (archive)
- Syrian Communist Party on Facebook
