Progressive Socialist Party
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Progressive Socialist Party
الحزب التقدمي الإشتراكي |
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| Leader | Walid Jumblatt |
| Founder | Kamal Jumblatt |
| Founded | 5 January 1949 |
| Headquarters |
 Mokhtara, Mount Lebanon |
| Youth wing |
Progressive Youth Organization Progressive Scout Association |
| Ideology |
Social democracy Democratic socialism Progressivism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| Religion | Officially Secular, predominantly Druze |
| National affiliation | Medial |
| International affiliation |
Socialist International, Progressive Alliance |
| Parliament of Lebanon |
7 / 128
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| Cabinet of Lebanon |
2 / 30
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| Party flag | |
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The Progressive Socialist Party or PSP (Arabic: الحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي, al-hizb al-taqadummi al-ishtiraki), also known as Parti Socialiste Progressiste in French, is a political party in Lebanon. Its current leader is Walid Jumblatt. It is ideologically secular and officially non-sectarian.
The party was founded on 5 January 1949, and registered on 17 March the same year, under notification N°789. The founders comprised six individuals, all of different backgrounds. The most notable of these was Kamal Jumblatt (Walid Jumblatt's father). The others were Farid Jubran, Albert Adeeb, Abdallah Alayli, Fouad Rizk, and George Hanna. The PSP held in Beirut the first conference for the Socialist Arab Parties in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Iraq in 1951. From 1951 through 1972 the party had between three and six deputies in parliament [1]
Under Kamal Jumblatt's leadership, the PSP was a major element in the Lebanese National Movement (LNM) which supported Lebanon's Arab identity and sympathised with the Palestinians. Despite Jumblatt's initial reluctance to engage in paramilitarism, it built its own powerful military wing, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) which proved to be one of the strongest private armies in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 to 1990. It conquered much of Mount Lebanon and the Chouf District. Its main adversaries were the Maronite Christian Phalangist Kataeb Regulatory Forces militia, and later the Lebanese Forces militia (which absorbed the Phalangists). The PSP suffered a major setback in 1977, when Kamal Jumblatt was assassinated. His son Walid succeeded him as leader of the party.
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