# Union Party (Lebanon)

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Lebanese political party

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Union Party حزب الإتحاد Abbreviation UP Leader Abdul Rahim Mrad Founded 1960s Headquarters West Beqaa Ideology Nasserism Pan-Arabism National affiliation March 8 Alliance Parliament of Lebanon 1 / 128 Cabinet of Lebanon 0 / 30 Party flag Politics of Lebanon Political parties Elections

The **Union Party** ([Arabic](/source/Arabic_language): حزب الإتحاد *Hizb el ittihad*) is a [Lebanese](/source/Lebanon) political party based in [Beqaa Governorate](/source/Beqaa_Governorate) and led by former minister [Abdelrahim Mourad](/source/Abdelrahim_Mourad). The party is officially secular and its ideology is [Nasserism](/source/Nasserism). The party was founded as **Resurrect the Revolution** ([Arabic](/source/Arabic_language): بعث الثورة), and took on its current name in 1990.[1]

The party is strongly allied with Syria and the [March 8 Alliance](/source/March_8_Alliance) with support from Iran, Syria and previously Qatar.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

The Union Party was represented in Parliament by [Abdelrahim Mourad](/source/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](/source/2022_Lebanese_general_election).[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** El Sayed, Moaz (October 2019). [*Intra-Sunni contestations in contemporary Lebanon : a framing-theory approach to the analysis of political divides within Lebanon's Sunni demographic (2005-2016)*](https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/7136/) (Ph.D. thesis). Keele University.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Hijazi, Salah (16 May 2022). ["West Bekaa-Rashaya: The opposition holds back the pro-Syrians"](https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1299800/west-bekaa-rashaya-the-opposition-holds-back-the-pro-syrians.html). *L'Orient Today*. Retrieved 9 August 2022.

## External links

- [Official website (archive)](https://web.archive.org/web/20110226201231/http://www.itti7ad.org/)

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