The Lebanese flag raised alongside the new Syrian flag. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine L'Orient-Le Jour)
The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has brought about the disappearance of the ideological framework on which the Baathist regime was founded, as well as its political and constitutional framework. This upheaval is bound to have repercussions on the former regime’s political representatives in Lebanon. They include the two Assad-aligned parties, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) and the Arab Socialist Baath Party in Lebanon, as well as a host of figures Damascus had planted in Lebanon with the aim of perpetuating its influence. Does this political galaxy, unreservedly loyal to the Assad dynasty, have a future in Lebanon?The only support the Lebanese branch of Baath and the SSNP can count on today is Hezbollah and the Iranian axis from which Syria has just been removed. It is a change in the balance of power, which Iran has...
The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has brought about the disappearance of the ideological framework on which the Baathist regime was founded, as well as its political and constitutional framework. This upheaval is bound to have repercussions on the former regime’s political representatives in Lebanon. They include the two Assad-aligned parties, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) and the Arab Socialist Baath Party in Lebanon, as well as a host of figures Damascus had planted in Lebanon with the aim of perpetuating its influence. Does this political galaxy, unreservedly loyal to the Assad dynasty, have a future in Lebanon?The only support the Lebanese branch of Baath and the SSNP can count on today is Hezbollah and the Iranian axis from which Syria has just been removed. It is a change in the balance of power, which Iran has...
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