List of political parties in Rojava
This is a list of political parties in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria has a political system based on direct democratic and multi-party aspirations, with different levels of government: Self-governing municipalities and communes, self-governing autonomous regions and provinces, and the autonomous region as a whole.
There have been two elections in the region so far, one for the communes/municipalities and one for regions/provinces in 2017, while the third federation-level election for the Syrian Democratic Council was delayed.
Political parties in Rojava
[edit]Parties
[edit]The following parties are represented either in the Syrian Democratic Assembly as of September 2016 or in cantonal parliaments:[1]
Notes: * including independents
Minor parties
[edit]The following groups or parties are not represented at either the cantonal or federal level (but may hold positions in municipal parliaments).
Relative importance of the five party alliances
[edit]Party | Number of elected representatives at the federal, cantonal and communal levels |
---|---|
TEV-DEM | |
HNKS | |
KDCK | |
ENKS | |
TM |
Historical parties and alliances
[edit]Historical parties
[edit]Name | Ideology | Active | Continued as |
---|---|---|---|
Mustafa Khidr Oso's Kurdish Freedom Party in Syria | Kurdish Nationalism | 2014 | Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria |
Mustafa Juma's Kurdish Freedom Party in Syria | Kurdish Nationalism | 2014 | Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria |
Kurdish Democratic Political Union | Kurdish Nationalism | 2013 | Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria |
Kurdish Union Party in Syria (PYKS) | Kurdish Nationalism | 2012 | |
Syrian National Resistance (SNR) | Syrian nationalism, Anti-Turkism, democracy | 2016–17 | dissolved |
Historical alliances
[edit]Name | Ideology | Active | Continued as |
---|---|---|---|
Kurdish Supreme Committee | Kurdish Nationalism | 2013 | discontinued |
Names in the national languages
[edit]Abbr. | Party | Northern Kurdish (Latin script) | Arabic | Syriac | Romanized Arabic |
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QMH | Wheat Wave Movement | Tevgera Hiqûq - Hemwelatîbûyîn - Mafan | تيار قمح | ? | Teyar El-Qemih |
SUP | Syriac Union Party | Partiya Yekîtiya Suryanî | حزب الإتحاد السرياني في سورية | ܓܒܐ ܕܚܘܝܕܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܒܣܘܪܝܐ | |
TWDS | Syrian National Democratic Alliance | Koalisyona Niştîmanî Demokratî Sûrî | التحالف الوطني الديمقراطي السوري | ? | ? |
CDR | Honor and Rights Convention | Kombûna Rûmet û Mafnasiyê | تجمع عهد الكرامة والحقوق | ? | ? |
YS | Yekîtiya Star | Yekîtiya Star | ? | ? | |
ANC | Arab National Coalition | Desteya Niştîmanî ya Erebî | ? | ? | |
PDK-S | Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria | Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê li Sûriyê | حزب الديمقراطي کوردستان في سوريا | ||
PYD | Democratic Union Party | Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat | حزب الاتحاد الديمقراطي | ? | |
SDS | Syrian Democratic Society | Kombûna Demokratîk a Sûriyeyê | |||
PB-ASD | Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party | Partiya Baas Demokratîk Sosyalîsa El-Erebî | حزب البعث الديمقراطي العربي الاشتراكي | ? | |
DM | Syrian Democratic Society | Partiya Modern û Demokratîk | |||
ADO | Assyrian Democratic Organisation | المنظمة الآثورية الديمقراطية | ܡܛܟܣܬܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܬܐ ܕܝܡܩܪܛܝܬܐ | ||
ADP | Assyrian Democratic Party | Partiya Asûrî ya Demokratîk | |||
TAA | Syria's Tomorrow Movement | تيار الغد السوري | Tayar Alghad Alsoury | ||
PDPKS | Progressive Democratic Party | Partiya Demokrata Pêşverû ya Kurd li Sûriyê | ? | ? | |
PYDKS | Kurdish Democratic Unity Party | Partiya Yekîtîya Demokrat a Kurd li Sûriyê | حزب الوحدة الديمقراطي الكردي في سوريا | ? | Hizb alwahdat aldiymuqratiu alkurdiu fi Suria |
PYKS | Kurdish Union Party in Syria | Partiya Yekîtî ya Kurd li Sûriyê | ? | ? | |
PÇKS | Left Party of Syrian Kurds | Partiya Çepa Kurdî li Surîyê | ? | ? | |
PÇDKS | Kurdish Left Party | Partiya Çepa Demokrata Kurdî li Suriyê | ? | ? | |
ŞPKS | Kurdish Future Movement in Syria | Şepêla Pêşeroja Kurdî li Suriyê | ? | ? | |
PAK | Kurdish Freedom Party | Partiya Azadî Kurdî li Sûriya | ? | ? | |
PADK | Kurdistan Democratic Peace Party | Partîya Aştîya Demokrat ya Kurdistanê | حزب السلام الديمقراطي الكردستاني |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- The Carter Center (27 February 2017). "Foreign Volunteers for the Syrian Kurdish Forces" (PDF). Atlanta: Carter Center.
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- ^ The Revolutionaries of Bethnahrin | Warscapes
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- ^ "Kurdistan Yekiti Party congratulates Kurdistan Union Party success of its conference". 20 March 2019.
- ^ "Interview with MLKP Rojava". look left. 22 December 2016.
- ^ "TKEP-L Rojava'da merkez açtı". Hawar Haber Ajansı (in Turkish). 22 January 2016. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
- ^ The Carter Center (2017), p. 2.
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