Political parties in Syria

Political parties in Syria

Political parties in Syria lists political parties in Syria. While not formally a single-party state, all political life in Syria is controlled by the Baath Party through a political "front", much like in the former German Democratic Republic. Article 8 of the constitution provides that "the Arab Socialist Baath Party leads society and the state". Since 1972, other parties that accept the leadership role of the Ba'th Party and support the government's socialist and Arab nationalist orientation have been allowed to operate under severe restrictions, as members of the National Progressive Front. Most of them are essentially reduced to tools of the government. In 2005, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party was licenced; it is the first legal party that is neither socialist nor Pan-Arab to be legalized. A considerable number of opposition parties operate outside the law, more or less clandestinely. While some socialist and liberal opposition parties now enjoy a limited degree of toleration, Kurdish and Assyrian parties remain more repressed, and the ban on religious parties is very strictly enforced.

Political parties and organizations

*Licenced parties in the National Progressive Front:
**Arab Socialist Baath Party (governing party)
**Arab Socialist Movement
**Arab Socialist Union
**Communist Party of Syria (Khalid Bakdash faction)
**Communist Party of Syria (Yusuf Faisal faction)
**Social Democratic Unionists
**Socialist Unionists
**Syrian Social Nationalist Party
**Democratic Socialist Unionist Party
**Arabic Democratic Unionist Party
**National Vow Movement

*Clandestine parties operating in Syria or from exile include:
**Syrian Democratic People's Party
**Arab Socialist Democratic Baath Party
**Muslim Brotherhood (widely believed to be the largest opposition group)
**Reform Party of Syria
**Antiglobalization Activists in Syria
**United Islamic Front
**Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria
**Kurdish Popular Union Party in Syria
**United Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria
**Kurdish Freedom Party
**Kurdish Future Movement in Syria
**Syrian Republican Party
**Assyrian Democratic Party
**Assyrian Democratic Movement
**Assyrian Democratic Organization
**Arab Communist Party
**Democratic Arab Socialist Union
**Movement of the Freedom and the National Solidarity in Syria
**Christian Democratic Party of Syria
**Islamic Liberation Movement
**Party of Modernity and Democracy for Syria
**National Salvation Front in Syria
**Syrian Democratic Current
**Democratic National Liberation League of Syria
**Liberal Democratic Union
**National Democratic Front
**National Party
**People's Party
**Movement for Justice and Development in Syria

ee also

* Index of political parties to browse parties by name
* List of political parties to browse parties by country
* List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
* Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals


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