Union Party (Lebanon)

Union Party

حزب الإتحاد
Union Party حزب الإتحاد
Abbreviation	UP
Leader	Abdul Rahim Mrad
Founded	1960s
Headquarters	West Beqaa
Ideology	Nasserism; Pan-Arabism
National affiliation	March 8 Alliance
Parliament of Lebanon	1 / 128
Cabinet of Lebanon	0 / 30
Party flag
	Politics of Lebanon; Political parties; Elections;

The Union Party (Arabic: حزب الإتحاد Hizb el ittihad) is a Lebanese political party based in Beqaa Governorate and led by former minister Abdelrahim Mourad. The party is officially secular and its ideology is Nasserism. The party was founded as Resurrect the Revolution (Arabic: بعث الثورة), and took on its current name in 1990.^[1]

The party is strongly allied with Syria and the March 8 Alliance with big support from Iran, Syria and previously Qatar.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

^ El Sayed, Moaz (October 2019). Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon : a framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon's Sunni demographic (2005-2016) (Ph.D. thesis). Keele University.

External links[]

Official website (archive)

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[1] El Sayed, Moaz (October 2019). Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon : a framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon's Sunni demographic (2005-2016) (Ph.D. thesis). Keele University.

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