This was a list of political parties in the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. The Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria had a political system based on direct democracy 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 had been two elections in the region: one for the communes and municipalities and another for the regions and provinces in 2017, while the third federation-level election for the Syrian Democratic Council was delayed.
Political parties in Rojava
Parties
The following parties are represented either in the Syrian Democratic Assembly as of September 2016 or in cantonal parliaments:
PartyAlliance Members inPolitical Position Abbr. Name Abbr. Name W Leader FC FA Cantons Members (Ideology) QMH Law–Citizenship–Rights Movement Wheat Wave Movement Teyar El-Qemih ? ? ? Haytham Manna 1 3 ? ? SecularismNonsectarianism SUP Syriac Union Party TEV-DEM Movement for a Democratic Society Ishow Gowriye 1 3 ? ? Assyrian/Syriac Interests Syrian federalism DawronoyeThe Revolutionaries of Bethnahrin Warscapes TWDS Syrian National Democratic AllianceSyrian National Democratic Coalition ? Alaeddine Khaled 1 4 ? ? Pluralist democracy Feminism Democratic confederalism CDR Honor and Rights Convention ? Meram Dawûd 1 2 ? ? SecularismDemocratic confederalismCommunalism YS Kongreya Star TEV-DEM Movement for a Democratic Society Rojîn Remo 1 1 ? ? Democracy Feminism ANC Arab National Coalition ? ? ? Ehmed El-Hebîb 1 1 ? ? Arab Interests PDK-S Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria ENKS Kurdish National Council Saud Malla 1 1 ? ? Kurdish nationalismKurdish autonomyLiberal democracyTraditionalism PYD Democratic Union Party TEV-DEM Movement for a Democratic Society Salih MuslimAsya Abdullah 0 3 ? ? Democratic confederalism Libertarian socialismJineologyCommunalism SDS Syrian Democratic Society TM Syria's Tomorrow MovementTayar Alghad Alsoury Ziyad El-Asî 0 1 ? ? Pluralist democracy DM Democratic Modernity Party ? Ebilqadir El-Miwehed 0 1 ? ? led by Fîras Qesas PB-ASD Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath PartyDemocratic Socialist Party KDCK Assembly for Democracy and the Left ? Brahim Makhous 0 1 ? ? Neo-Ba'athismDemocratic socialismJadidismAnti-Assadism LPSK Left Party of Syrian Kurds KDCK Assembly for Democracy and the Left ? Mihmedê Mûsê 0 1 ? ? Centre-leftKurdish Nationalism ANC Arab National Coalition ? ? Hikmet Hebîb 0 1 ? ? Arab InterestsRegionalism KDPP / PDPKS Kurdish Democratic Progressive Party Abd al-Hamid Darwish 0 1 ? ? Federalism Kurdish nationalism Socialism ADP Assyrian Democratic Party Ninos Isho 0 1 ? ? Eastern Assyrian interestsSyrian-Assyrian self-determinationChristian politicsSocial democracy PADK Kurdistan Democratic Peace Party TEV-DEM Movement for a Democratic Society Talal Muhammad (Abduselam Mihemed) 0 1 ? ? Democratic confederalismCommunalism DT Democratic Transformation Party Mizgîn Zêdan 0 1 ? ? ? PYLK Kurdistan Liberal Union Party TEV-DEM Movement for a Democratic Society Ferhad Têlo 0 1 ? ? ? Wifaq Kurdish Democratic Accord PartyAl Wifaq Party HNKS Kurdish National Alliance in Syria ? Fewzî Şengalî 0 1 ? ? Centre-rightKurdish Nationalism Îslah Syrian Reform MovementAl-Îslah Party HNKS Kurdish National Alliance in Syria ? Emcet Osman 0 1 ? ? Reformism Êzîdî Yazidi HouseMala Êzîdiyan ? Faris Eto Şemo 0 1 ? ? Yazidi Interests SNC Syriac National Council ? Bassam Said Ishak 0 1 ? ? Assyrian Interests PI Patriotic Initiative HNKS Kurdish National Alliance in Syria Cebel El-Ereb 0 1 ? ? PopulismTotal 9* 43* ? ? Notes: * including independents
Minor parties The following groups or parties are not represented at either the cantonal or federal level (but may hold positions in municipal parliaments).
PartyAlliance Political Position Abbr. Name Abbr. Name W Leader (Ideology) KOM Communist Party of Kurdistan TEV-DEM Movement for a Democratic Society CommunismLeft-wing Anti-capitalism KNK National Assembly of Kurdistan TEV-DEM Movement for a Democratic Society Left-wing N-PDKS New Kurdistan Democratic Party in Syria TEV-DEM Movement for a Democratic Society Left-wing KESK Green Party of Kurdistan KDCK Assembly for Democracy and the Left ? ? Environmentalism PGD Change PartyDemocratic Change Party KDCK Assembly for Democracy and the Left ? ? Progressivism KED Kurdistan Workers Party KDCK Assembly for Democracy and the Left ? ? Trade Unionism PCKS Kurdish Left Party KDCK Assembly for Democracy and the Left ? ? Left-wing TNK Booster Movement of Kurdistan KDCK Assembly for Democracy and the Left ? ? Left-wing PYDKS Kurdish Democratic Unity Party HNKS Kurdish National Alliance in Syria Website
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Website Şêx Alî (Sheikh Ali) Liberalism Secularism Kurdish nationalism Federalism PDKSI Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria HNKS Kurdish National Alliance in Syria ? Nesiredîn Îberahîm ? PYÇŞ Yekiti Kurdistan Party – Syria ("The First Party with four branches")Partiya Yeketî bi çar şaxên wê ENKS Kurdish National Council ? ? Kurdish nationalismTraditionalism ŞPKS Kurdish Future Movement in Syria ENKS Kurdish National Council Siamend Hajo Kurdish nationalismLiberalism PYDK Kurdistan Democratic Union Party ENKS Kurdish National Council Faslah Youssef(فصلة يوسف, elected March 8–9, 2019) TAA Syria's Tomorrow Movement TM Syria's Tomorrow Movement Fouad HumeiraAhmad Jarba Pluralist democracy Liberal democracy Secularism SRLC Syrian Revolutionary Left Current TWDS Syrian National Democratic Alliance TrotskyismDemocratic socialism Participatory democracy Secularism MLKP Rojava Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (Rojava) HBDH Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement HoxhaismAnti-Revisionism TKEP/L Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist HBDH Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement Marxism–Leninism–Maoism TKP/ML Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist HBDH Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement Marxism–Leninism–Maoism ADO Assyrian Democratic Organization Gabriel Moushe Gawrieh Assyrian Interests DCP Democratic Conservative Party Conservatism Economic liberalism Anti-racism
Relative importance of the five party alliances
Historical parties and alliances
Historical parties
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
Name Ideology Active Continued as Kurdish Supreme Committee Kurdish Nationalism 2013 discontinued
Names in the national languages
Abbr. Party Northern Kurdish (Latin script) Arabic Syriac Romanized Arabic 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 Politics of Syria List of political parties by country
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References
External links Syrian Democratic Assembly