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Progressive Socialist Party Lebanon PSP

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Detailed information about the Progressive Socialist Party Al Hizb Al Takadummi al Ishtiraki, a political party in Lebanon.

Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningProgressive Socialist PartyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchLebanonThis article is part of the series:Politics and government ofLebanonConstitutionPresidentEmile LahoudPrime MinisterFouad SinioraPresent governmentParliamentSpeakerPolitical partiesElectionsGovernoratesDistrictsForeign relationsOther countries #160;• #160;Politics #160;Portalview • talk • editThe Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) (Arabic ÃáÍÒÈ ÃáÊÞÏãí ÃáÃÔÊÑÇßí al-hizb al-taqadummi al-ishtiraki) is a political party in Lebanon. Its current leader is Walid Jumblatt. It is ideologically secular and officially non-sectarian, but in practice is led and supported mostly by followers of the Druze faith.The party was founded on 5 January 1949, and registered on 17 March the same year, under notification N°789. The founders comprised six individuals, all of different backgrounds. The most notable of these was Kamal Jumblatt (Walid Jumblatts father). The others were Farid Joubran, Albert Adeeb, Abdallah Alayli, Fouad Rizk, and Georges Hanna.The PSP held in Beirut the first conference for the Socialist Arab Parties in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Iraq in 1951. From 1951 through 1972 the party had between three and six deputies in parliament.[1]The PSP under Kamal Jumblatt was a major element in the Lebanese National Movement (LNM) which supported Lebanons Arab identity and sympathised with the Palestinians. Despite Jumblatts initial reluctance to engage in paramilitarism, it built a powerful private army, which proved to be one of the strongest in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 to 1990. It conquered much of Mount Lebanon and the Chouf District. Its main adversaries were the Maronite Christian Phalangist militia, and later the Lebanese Forces militia (which absorbed the Phalangists). The PSP suffered a major setback in 1977, when Kamal Jumblatt was assassinated. His son Walid succeeded him as leader of the party.From the Israeli withdrawal from the Chouf in 1983 to the end of the civil war, the PSP ran a highly effective civil administration, the Civil Administration of the Mountain, in the area under its control. Tolls levied at PSP militia checkpoints provided a major source of income for the administration, which succeeded in providing a high standard of social and public services.Since the restoration of constitutional rule in 1989, PSP leader Walid Jumblatt participated in a number of governments, but later joined the opposition and took up a position opposed to the role of Syria in Lebanons politics. Unlike some opponents of the Syrian presence, he did not oppose the presence of the Syrian army per se, but contended that the Syrian intelligence services were exerting undue influence.Following the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559, calling for a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, Jumblatt was particularly prominent in the opposition. However, he was opposed to the demand that Hezbollah be dis

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