The Popular Front for Change and Liberation ( ar, الجبهة الشعبية للتحرير والتغيير, ''al-Jabha aš-š‘abiyya li'l-taghayyir wa'l-taḥrīr'') is a coalition of
Syria
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political parties
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and is the leader of the official
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parliament
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'', 9 May 2012 The Popular Front for Change and Liberation brought together Jamil's
People’s Will Party
The People's Will Party ( ar, حزب الإرادة الشعبية, translit=Ḥizb al-ʾIrāda aš-Šaʿbiyya) is a political party in Syria.
History
In 2000, shortly after the convention of the 9th Congress of the Syrian Communist Party, 80% ...
, Ali Haidar's Syrian Social Nationalist Party – Intifada, and others.
They have criticized the ruling party on occasion, particularly after the 2012 parliamentary election, when Qadri Jamil questioned the transparency of the vote and considered giving up his seat depending on the government's response, and a member of the SSNP complained about the Ba'ath party's domination of parliament.
Leader of the SSNP-Intifada Ali Haidar announced on 6 May 2014 that his party was withdrawing from the Popular Front for Change and Liberation over a difference in positions towards the 2014 presidential election. The SSNP supported the re-election of
Bashar al-Assad
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On 10 August 2014, the remaining Popular Front signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria, calling for ″comprehensive grassroots change, which means the transition from the current authoritarian regime to a democratic pluralistic system within a democratic civil State based on the principle of equal citizenship to all Syrians regardless of their ethnic, religious and sectarian identities.″