What holds the future for the Baath party in Syria?
The Baath party knows a long history in Syria. Since 1963 the branches of the government are guided by the views of the Baath party, whose primacy in state institutions is assured by the constitution (Springborg 1981: 192). The Arab Socialist Baath party began its half-century of existence as a movement standing for Arab nationalism, freedom from foreign rule, and the establishment of a single Arab state (Devlin 1991: 1396). Today the party has a two-thirds majority in the Syrian parliament. Though the Baath party today holds 134 of the 250 seats in the Syrian Parliament, six smaller political parties are permitted to exist along with the Ba’ath Party. They make up the National Progressive Front (NPF), a grouping of parties that represents the sole framework of legal political party participation for citizens. While created ostensibly to give the appearance of a multi-party system, the NPF is dominated by the Ba’ath Party and did not change the essentially one-party character of the po
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