Union Party (Lebanon)
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Union Party حزب الإتحاد | |
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| Abbreviation | UP |
West Beqaa | |
| Ideology | Nasserism Pan-Arabism |
| National affiliation | March 8 Alliance |
| Parliament of Lebanon | 1 / 128
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| Cabinet of Lebanon | 0 / 30
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The Union Party (
Arabic: بعث الثورة), and took on its current name in 1990.[1]
The party is strongly allied with Syria and the March 8 Alliance with support from Iran, Syria and previously Qatar.[citation needed]
The Union Party was represented in Parliament by
Abdelrahim Mourad from 1992 to 2009, and from 2018 to 2022 in one of the Sunni seats in West Bekaa-Rashaya. He was succeeded as an MP by his son Hasan Mrad following the 2022 Lebanese general election.[2]
References
- ^ El Sayed, Moaz (October 2019). Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon : a framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon's Sunni demographic (2005-2016) (Ph.D. thesis). Keele University.
- ^ Hijazi, Salah (16 May 2022). "West Bekaa-Rashaya: The opposition holds back the pro-Syrians". L'Orient Today. Retrieved 9 August 2022.