Assaad Hardan ( ar, أسعد حردان, born 31 July 1951 in

Rachaya Al Foukhar Rachaya Al Foukhar (also spelled Rashaya Al Foukhar, ar, راشيا الفخار) is a Lebanon, Lebanese village in the district of Hasbaya District, Hasbaya in the Nabatiye Governorate in southern Lebanon. It is located on the western slopes of ...

) is a

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politician and the leader of the

Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon The Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon (SSNP-L) or is a Syrian nationalist party operating in Lebanon. The Lebanese section of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party advocates subsuming Lebanon into a Greater Syrian nation state spannin ...

. He joined the

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in 1968 and became leader of the Central Political Bureau in 2016.

Career

He was elected in 1992 a member of the

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representing the

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seat from the

Marjeyoun Marjayoun ( ar, مرج عيون: Lebanese pronunciation), also Marj 'Ayoun, Marjuyun or Marjeyoun (lit. "meadow of springs") and Jdeideh / Jdeida / Jdeidet Marjeyoun, is a Lebanese town and an administrative district, the Marjeyoun District, in ...

Hasbaya Hasbeya or Hasbeiya ( ar, حاصبيا) is a town in Lebanon, situated at the foot of Mount Hermon, overlooking a deep amphitheatre from which a brook flows to the Hasbani. In 1911, the population was about 5000. Hasbaya is the capital of the W ...

district on the

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Hizballah Hezbollah (; ar, حزب الله ', , also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's paramil ...

ticket and has been named repeatedly to the government: Minister of State without portfolio between 1990 and 1992 (government of

Omar Karami Omar Abdul Hamid Karami (last name also spelled Karamé and Karameh) ( ar, عمر عبد الحميد كرامي; 7 September 1934 – 1 January 2015) was the 29th prime minister of Lebanon, who served two separate terms. He was Prime Minis ...

and

Rachid Solh Rachid Solh ( ar, رشيد الصلح; 22 June 1926 – 27 June 2014) was a Lebanese politician and former Prime Minister, kin of one of the most eminent Sunni Muslim families in the country that brought several of its members to the office of ...

), Minister of Labour between 1995 and 1998 and between 2003 and 2004, he was succeeded by

Assem Qanso Muhammad Assem Qanso ( ar, عاصم قانصوه, born 1937 in Baalbek) is a Lebanese politician. He is a former leader of the Lebanese Ba'ath Party. Political career Qanso joined the Lebanese Ba'ath in 1953. During the Lebanese war, the Leban ...

in 2004. He eventually lost his seat after the 2022 Lebanese general election and was replaced by

Elias Jrade Elias is the Greek equivalent of Elijah ( he, אֵלִיָּהוּ‎ ''ʾĒlīyyāhū''; Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ ''Eliyā''; Arabic: الیاس Ilyās/Elyās), a prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BC, mentioned in several holy ...

, an ideologically communist member of a 13-member

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reformist bloc.

References

Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon politicians Living people 1951 births Eastern Orthodox Christians from Lebanon Lebanese University alumni Members of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch Members of the Parliament of Lebanon Labour ministers of Lebanon Ministers without portfolio of Lebanon People from Hasbaya District {{Lebanon-politician-stub