List of political parties in Lebanon
Many political parties in Lebanon already exist since the French Mandate. Lebanon is therefore ( apart from Iraq since 2003) the only Arab country in which there is a genuine multi-party system.
In fact, Lebanon is the only democracy in the Arab world and adjacent Turkey and Israel the only one in the Middle East. The country's political system is based on a republic, in which the many different religions of the country to contribute to the equal power (principle of concordance democracy). The deputies seats in the National Assembly are elected freely and simultaneously distributed according to a key in proportion to the shares of the religions of the total population - different political parties can thus compete against each other. This is regulated in the Taif Agreement since 1989, previously (from 1975 ) wrestled the various political and religious groups in the Lebanese civil war military for power. Nevertheless, Lebanon looked to the Civil War because of democracy and peace as Switzerland of the Middle East.
Parliamentary parties
- Courant du Futur ( Saad Hariri )
- Parti Socialiste progressiste ( Walid Joumblatt )
- Lebanese Forces ( Samir Geagea )
- Phalanges Libanaises ( Amine Gemayel )
- Parti national libéral ( Dory Chamoun )
- Mouvement du renouveau démocratique ( Nassib Lahoud )
- Mouvement de la gauche démocratique (Elias Atallah )
- Amal Movement ( Nabih Berri )
- Hezbollah ( Hassan Nasrallah )
- Parti social nationaliste syria ( Ali Qanso )
- Courant patriotique libre ( Michel Aoun )
- Rankavar Asatakan ( Hagop Kassarjian )
Extra-parliamentary parties
- Association of Islamic Charitable Projects ( Houssam Qaraqirah )
- Armenian Revolutionary Federation
- Social Democratic Party Hunchak
- Mouvement du peuple ( Najah Wakim )
- Najjadeh
- Lebanese Communist Party
- Parti démocratique libanais ( Talal Arslan )
- Parti Vert Libanais
- Arab Democratic Party
Other parties
- Bloc national ( Raymond Eddé )
- Marada Movement ( Soleimane Frangié Jr )
- Gardiens of the Cedars
- Jamaa Islamiya ( Assaad Harmouche )
- Murabeitoun ( Ibrahim Qoleilat )
- Baath Party ( Assem Qanso )
- Union chrétienne démocrate libanais ( UCDL )