{{short description|Lebanese political party}} {{More citations needed|date=July 2011}} {{Infobox political party | country = Lebanon | colorcode = #8B8589 | name = Union Party | native_name = حزب الإتحاد | logo = | leader = [[Abdul Rahim Mrad]] | abbreviation = UP | founder = | native_name_lang = ar | foundation = 1960s | headquarters = [[West Beqaa]] | ideology = [[Nasserism]]<br>[[Pan-Arabism]] | national = [[March 8 Alliance]] | seats1_title = [[Parliament of Lebanon]] | seats1 = {{Composition bar|1|128|hex=#8B8589}} | seats2_title = [[Council of Ministers of Lebanon|Cabinet of Lebanon]] | seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|30|hex=#8B8589}} | flag = Union Party (Lebanon) flag.svg }}
The '''Union Party''' ({{langx|ar|حزب الإتحاد}} ''Hizb el ittihad'') is a [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] political party based in [[Beqaa Governorate]] and led by former minister [[Abdelrahim Mourad]]. The party is officially secular and its ideology is [[Nasserism]]. The party was founded as '''Resurrect the Revolution''' ({{Langx|ar|بعث الثورة}}), and took on its current name in 1990.<ref>{{Cite thesis|title=Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon : a framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon's Sunni demographic (2005-2016)|url=https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/7136/ <!--https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/7136/1/ElSayedPhD2019.pdf-->|publisher=Keele University|date=October 2019|degree=Ph.D.|first=Moaz|last=El Sayed}}</ref>
The party is strongly allied with Syria and the [[March 8 Alliance]] with support from Iran, Syria and previously Qatar.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}<!-- Yet this party has now a major reformist movement since 3 years led by Hassan Shalha an Arab icon in the political and media scene with more than 30 years of professional dedication. -->
The Union Party was represented in Parliament by [[Abdelrahim Mourad]] from 1992 to 2009, and from 2018 to 2022 in one of the Sunni seats in West Bekaa-Rashaya. He was succeeded as an MP by his son Hasan Mrad following the [[2022 Lebanese general election]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hijazi |first1=Salah |title=West Bekaa-Rashaya: The opposition holds back the pro-Syrians |url=https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1299800/west-bekaa-rashaya-the-opposition-holds-back-the-pro-syrians.html |website=L'Orient Today |date=16 May 2022 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110226201231/http://www.itti7ad.org/ Official website (archive)]
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