Democratic Arab Socialist Union

Democratic Arab Socialist Union

Secretary-General	Hassan Abdul Azim^[1]
Founder	Jamal al-Atassi
Assistant Secretary General	Mohammad Abdul Majeed Manjuneh^[1]
Founded	1980 (1980)
Split from	Arab Socialist Union Party of Syria
Headquarters	Paris, France
Ideology	Nasserism, Democratic socialism
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	National Democratic Rally National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change
Politics of Syria Political parties Elections

The Democratic Arab Socialist Union (Arabic: الاتحاد الاشتراكي العربي الديمقراطي‎ Al-Ittihad Al-Ishtiraki Al-'Arabi Al-Dimuqratiy; French: Union arabe socialiste démocratique) is a Nasserist democratic socialist Syrian political party based in Paris, France. It was founded in a split of the Arab Socialist Union Party of Syria and Hassan Abdul Azim (Arabic حسن اسماعيل عبد العظيم) is its general secretary.^[2]

Is part of the National Democratic Rally coalition (Arabic التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي, at-tajammuʻ al-waţanī ad-dīmūqrāţī).

After Hafez al-Assad took power in 1970, the ASU entered into negotiations about a coalition government, and agreed to join the National Progressive Front (NPF) in 1972. The year after, however, the party split over the adoption of a Syrian constitution in which the Baath was proclaimed the "leading party" of the country. One minor faction under Fawzi Kiyali accepted the constitution, and retained both the ASU name and the NPF membership, while most members followed party leader Jamal al-Atassi into opposition, by renaming themselves the Democratic Arab Socialist Union.

Hassan Ismail Abdelazim was arrested by the Syrian authorities in May 2011 as a crackdown on opposition forces in Syria.^[3]

References

1 2 "The Democratic Arab Socialist Union". Carnegie Middle East Center. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
↑ AlJazeera.net: الأمين العام للإتحاد الإشتراكي الديمقراطي العربي حسن عبد العظيم)
↑ AlGhad: السلطات السورية توقف المعارض حسن اسماعيل عبد العظيم (in Arabic)

Political parties in Syria

National Progressive Front	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party 134 pan-Arab organization Socialist Unionists (18) Syrian Communist Party (Bakdash) (8) Syrian Communist Party (Unified) (3) National Vow Movement (3) Arab Socialist Union (2)

Popular Front for Change and Liberation	Syrian Social Nationalist Party (4) People's Will Party (1)

Unrepresented	Democratic Socialist Unionist Party Social Democratic Unionists Arabic Democratic Unionist Party Arab Socialist Movement Democratic People's Party Syrian Turkmen Assembly Syrian Turkmen National 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

Defunct parties	National Bloc National Party People's Party League of Nationalist Action Arab National 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 parties	Hizb ut-Tahrir Muslim Brotherhood of Syria Assyrian Democratic Organization Reform Party of Syria

Kurdish parties	Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria Democratic Union Party Kurdish National Council Kurdish Supreme Committee Kurdish Future Movement

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