Solidarity Party of Afghanistan

Solidarity Party of Afghanistan
Leader	Hafiz Rasikh[1]
Founded	17 April 2004
Headquarters	Kabul
Membership	30,000 (approx.)
Ideology	Secularism Democratic socialism Women's rights Democratic reform Anti-Imperialism Left-wing nationalism
Political position	Left-wing
Seats in the House of the People	0 / 249
Seats in the House of Elders	1 / 102
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The Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (Persian: حزب همبستگی افغانستان‎‎) (SPA) is a small, left-wing political party in Afghanistan.^[2] The party platform focuses on four main issues: secularism, women's rights, democracy, and opposition to the US/NATO presence in Afghanistan.^[3] The party is strongly critical of the Afghan government, which it views as corrupt, fundamentalist, and dominated by warlords.^[3] The party claims a membership of some 30,000.^[3]

History

The party boycotted the 2005 and 2010 parliamentary elections, and has one senator in the House of Elders.^[2]

The party was suspended in June 2012 following a Kabul demonstration in late April 2012 where the party accused a number of Afghan leaders, including former leaders and commanders, of committing war crimes over the last three decades of conflict, and demanded they be brought to justice.^[2]

The SPA boycotted the 2004, 2009, and 2014 Afghan Presidential elections as the party alleges that an individual cannot be elected without the approval of the US government.^[3] The party does, however, take part in provincial elections as it believes these elections to be more democratic and harder for central government to control or rig.^[3] No SPA members ran in the 2013 provincial elections, although the party did support certain candidates.^[3]

References

Political parties in Afghanistan Present major parties National Front of Afghanistan National Coalition of Afghanistan (Coalition for Change and Hope) Basej-e Milli (Afghanistan Green Trend) Truth and Justice Party Afghan Mellat Jamiat-e Islami Hezb-e Islami Junbish-e Milli Hezb-e Wahdat (People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan, National Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan ) Ittehad-i Islami Peace Movement of Afghanistan Present minor parties New Afghanistan Party Democratic Party of Afghanistan National Congress Party of Afghanistan National Islamic Front of Afghanistan National Movement of Afghanistan National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan National United Party of Afghanistan Liberal Democratic Party of Afghanistan Pashtoons Social Democratic Party Progressive Democratic Party of Afghanistan Solidarity Party of Afghanistan Banned/Former parties Afghanistan Liberation Organization Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan Khuddamul Furqan Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Progressive Youth Organization Taliban Watan Party of Afghanistan Portal:Politics List of political parties Politics of Afghanistan