The Socialist Unionist Party ( ar, حزب الوحدويين الاشتراكيين ''Al-Wahdawiyyun Al-Ishtirakiyyun'') is a leftist
Nasserist
Nasserism ( ) is an Arab nationalist and Arab socialist political ideology based on the thinking of Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the two principal leaders of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and Egypt's second President. Spanning the domestic a ...
political party in
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
. The party was founded in 1962 through a split in the
Ba'ath Party
The Arab Socialist Baʿath Party ( ar, حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي ' ) was a political party founded in Syria by Mishel ʿAflaq, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Bītār, and associates of Zaki al-ʾArsūzī. The party espoused B ...
. It is part of the
National Progressive Front of legally permitted parties that support
socialism and
Arab nationalism. The party leader is
Fayiz Ismail.
Abdullah Sallum Abdullah
Abdullah Sallum Abdullah ( ar, عبد الله سلوم عبد الله; born 1956) is a Syrian politician, current state minister for People's Assembly Affairs, former MP and Socialist Unionist Party presidential candidate at the 2021 Syrian ...
, a member of this party, ran for president in
2021 Syrian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Syria on 26 May 2021, with expatriates able to vote in some embassies abroad on 20 May. The three candidates were incumbent president Bashar al-Assad, Mahmoud Ahmad Marei and Abdullah Sallum Abdullah. The ele ...
.
Presidential elections
Parliamentary elections
References
External links
Party website
1962 establishments in Syria
Arab nationalism in Syria
Nasserist political parties
Political parties established in 1962
Political parties in Syria
Socialist parties in Syria
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