Arab Democratic Union Party

The Arab Democratic Union Party (Arabic: حزب الاتحاد العربي الديمقراطي - Hizb Al-Ittihad Al-'Arabi Al-Dimuqrati) is a nationalist political party in Syria. It is part of the National Progressive Front of legally licensed parties which support the socialist and Arab nationalist orientation of the government and accept the leadership of the Ba'ath Party.^[2] In the 22 April 2007 People's Council of Syria election the party was awarded 1 out of 250 seats in the parliament.

Ideology

The party is committed to the ideals of Nasserism, the party states its intent as, "Building a society that is governed by social justice and in its ideological approach and its struggle is guided by Nasserism, thought and practice". The party is both Arab nationalist and Arab socialist.^[3]

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Political parties in Syria

National Progressive Front

• Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
  • pan-Arab organization) (167
• Syrian Social Nationalist Party (3)
• Arab Socialist Union Party (3)
• Socialist Unionist Party (2)
• Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash) (3)
• Syrian Communist Party (Unified) (2)
• National Covenant Party (2)
• Arab Democratic Union Party (1)
• Democratic Socialist Unionist Party (1)
• Social Democratic Unionists (0)
• Arab Socialist Movement (0)

Popular Front for Change and Liberation

• People's Will Party (0)

Unrepresented

• Democratic People's Party
• Syrian Turkmen Assembly
• Syrian Turkmen Bloc
• Syrian Democratic Turkmen Movement
• Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party
• Arab Revolutionary Workers Party
• Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria
• Syriac Union Party
• Democratic Arab Socialist Union
• Movement for Justice and Development in Syria
• Democratic Union Party
• National Youth Party
• Kurdish Future Movement
• Kurdish National Alliance in Syria
• Reform Party of Syria

Defunct parties

• National Bloc
• National Party
• National Union
• People's Party
• League of Nationalist Action
• Arab National Party
• Arab Ba'ath Party
• Arab Ba'ath Movement
• Syrian–Lebanese Communist Party
• Syrian Communist Party
• Arab Liberation Movement
• Socialist Cooperation Party
• Arab Communist Party
• Communist Labour Party
• Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction)

Banned Islamist parties

• Hizb ut-Tahrir
• Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

Kurdish parties

• Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria
• Democratic Union Party
• Kurdish National Council
• Kurdish Supreme Committee
• Kurdish Future Movement
• Kurdish National Alliance in Syria
• Kurdish Democratic Progressive Party

Assyrian parties

• Assyrian Democratic Organization
• Syriac Union Party
• Assyrian Democratic Party

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