Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash)

Syrian Communist Party
الحزب الشيوعي السوري
General SecretaryAmmar Bakdash
Founded1986; 38 years ago (1986)
Split fromSyrian Communist Party
HeadquartersDamascus, Syria
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationNational Progressive Front
International affiliationIMCWP
Colours Red and yellow
People's Assembly
3 / 250
Party flag

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. 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.

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

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