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Democratic Arab Socialist Union

Syrian political party based in France

Summary

Syrian political party based in France

Field	Value
name	Democratic Arab Socialist Union
native_name	الاتحاد الاشتراكي العربي الديمقراطي
colorcode
logo	Democratic Arab Socialist Union.jpg
logo_size	200px
secretary_general	Hassan Abdul Azim
leader2_title	Assistant Secretary General
leader2_name	Mohammad Abdul Majeed Manjuneh
foundation
founder	Jamal al-Atassi
native_name_lang	ar
split	Arab Socialist Union Party of Syria
headquarters	Paris, France
ideology	Nasserism
Democratic socialism
position	Centre-left to left-wing
national	National Democratic Rally
National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change
country	Syria
website

Democratic socialism National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change The Democratic Arab Socialist Union (, Al-ittiḥād al-ishtirākī al-'arabī al-dīmūqrāṭī; French: Union arabe socialiste démocratique) (DASU) is a Nasserist democratic socialist Syrian political party based in Paris, France. It was founded in a split of the Arab Socialist Union Party of Syria, with Hassan 'Abd al-Azim as its general secretary. The party is the largest of the opposition parties, but has a 'soft' approach in its opposition.

Creation

After Hafez al-Assad took power in 1970, the ASU entered into negotiations about a coalition government, and agreed to join the National Progressive Front (NPF) in 1972. The year after, however, the party split over the adoption of a Syrian constitution in which the Ba'ath was proclaimed the "leading party" of the country. One minor faction under Fawzi Kiyali accepted the constitution, and retained both the ASU name and the NPF membership, while most members followed party leader Jamal al-Atassi into opposition, by renaming themselves the Democratic Arab Socialist Union (DASU). Hassan Abdelazim succeeded Jamal al-Atassi after his death in 2000.

Hassan Ismail Abdelazim was arrested by the Syrian authorities in May 2011 as a crackdown on opposition forces in Syria, but he was quickly released.

Affiliations

The DASU is part of the National Democratic Rally coalition (, Al-tajammuʻ al-waṭanī al-dīmūqrāṭī). The party is one of the largest in the coalition, and has a historic rivalry with other most major party in the group, the Syrian Democratic People's Party. This rivalry would cripple the front.

On June 30, 2011, DASU, along with other parties, established the The National Coordination Bureau for the Forces of Democratic Change with several other opposition parties, most of which were in the NBC with it.

The DASU party had some of the executives of the NBC including:

General Coordinator: Hassan Abdelazim
Mays Kreidi
Raja Al-Nasser

Post-Syrian Civil War

It is unknown what has happened to the Democratic Arab Socialist Union since the fall of Assad's regime.

References

"The Democratic Arab Socialist Union". Carnegie Middle East Center.
[http://www.aljazeera.net/specialfiles/pages/82ccba2c-2cfc-42d9-ac50-1f1d956776b6 AlJazeera.net: الأمين العام للإتحاد الإشتراكي الديمقراطي العربي حسن عبد العظيم)]
Lund, Aron. (15 June 2011). "Weakening regime, weaker opposition".
[http://alghad.com/index.php/article/470986.html AlGhad: السلطات السورية توقف المعارض حسن اسماعيل عبد العظيم] (in Arabic)
Lund, Aron. (May 2012). "Divided They Stand: An Overview of Syria's Political Factions".
"Egg attack disrupts talks".

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