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The Syrian Communist Party (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي السوري, romanizedAl-Hizb Al-Shuyū'ī Al-Sūrī) is an 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

People's Assembly of Syria
Election year # of
overall seats won
±
2007
5 / 250
2012
8 / 250
Increase3
2016
3 / 250
Decrease5
2020
3 / 250
Steady

References

  1. ^ Orfali, Mohannad. "الحزب الشيوعي السوري". pnf.org.sy. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  2. ^ "20 IMCWP, Participants List". SolidNet. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  3. ^ Velasco Muñoz, Rosa (2019). "The Syrian Communist Party". Communist Parties in the Middle East. pp. 109–128. doi:10.4324/9780367134464-6. ISBN 978-0-367-13446-4. S2CID 181902938.
  4. ^ 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).
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Prime Minister's Office". Syrian Arab News Agency. Retrieved 18 December 2021.

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