National Progressive Front (Syria)
The National Progressive Front (Arabic الجبهة الوطنية التقدمية, DMG al - Ǧabha al - Waṭaniyya at- Taqaddumiyya, French National Front progressiste, abbreviation FNP ), also known as the National Progressive Front, an alliance of parties in Syria between the Baath Party, the Communist parties and several block parties. It consists in the country since 1972. A year later a National Progressive Front in Iraq was also formed there under the ruling Baath party.
The term one-party meet on Syria thus not formally. In fact, the Ba'ath Party dominated politics and society of the country. A legal opposition does not exist in the inner leadership circle no Nichtbaathisten are represented. The other together in the front parties is not permitted in the military and security agencies, as well as high schools and colleges canvassed. However, there are within the coalition parties and opposition wing platforms that can thus act more or less legal under the guise of the front.
Organization and members
The National Front of Syria ( FNP ) was founded in 1972, in 1966 a member of the Communist Party had been included in the government. The parties to this front have an authoritarian and left nationalist or revolutionary and patriotic ideology ( Islamic socialism and Arab nationalism ). Parties with other political currents were the National Front has not join, but the recording was made in 2005 the Syrian to date anti- Baathist and therefore banned Nationalist Party is considered tentative opening of the Baath regime since the death of Hafez al -Assad. She stepped out again in 2012 to form the party of the people's will, the Popular Front for Change and freedom.
The ten parties that participate in this merger and are therefore represented in the Syrian Parliament, are:
- Arab Socialist Baath Party
- Arab Socialist Union ( Nasserist Jamal al - Atassi below )
- Syrian Communist Party ( Bakdasch ) (anti- perestroika - wing Khalid Bakdaschs )
- Syrian Communist Party ( united ) (pro- perestroika - wing Yusuf Faisal )
- Arab Socialist Party ( successor Akram al - Hauranis )
- Arab Socialist Movement ( successor Akram al - Hauranis )
- Organization of the unit Socialists ( former Baathists, 1975 together with the Baath Party )
- Syrian Arab Socialist Union
- United Socialist- Democratic Party
- Arab Democratic Union
- Movement National Pact