Farid Youssef Jubran ( ar, فريد يوسف جبران) was a Lebanese

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politician. He was born in 1911. Jubran was one of the co-founders of the

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in 1949. Outside politics Jubran owned a

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-based auditing firm. Jubran became the president of the National Labour Union Front in 1946, and struggled for the implementation of Labour Law. Jubran contested the 1957 parliamentary election unsuccessfully. In the 1960 parliament election Jubran won the Minorities seat from the Beirut II constituency, contesting on the list of

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. He retained the Beirut II Minorities seat in the 1964, 1968 and 1972 elections.Zuwiyya, Jalal.
The Parliamentary Election of Lebanon 1968
'. Leiden: Brill, 1972. pp. 13, 17-20 In the latter election, Jubran contested on the list of

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. He was a leader of the National Struggle Front and the Commercial Workers and Employees Trade Union in Lebanon.''As-Safir''
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/ref> In 1966 Jubran, then vice president of PSP, attended the

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. After the assassination of PSP leader

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in 1977, Jubran briefly served as interim president of PSP. Jubran died in 1995. The Farid Jubran Square was inaugurated in Beirut in 2014.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jubran, Farid Progressive Socialist Party politicians 1911 births 1995 deaths Lebanese Roman Catholics