Assaad Hardan (, born 31 July 1951 in

Rachaya Al Foukhar Rashaya al-Foukhar, () is a municipality in the district of Hasbaya in the Nabatiye Governorate in southern Lebanon. It is located on the western slopes of Mount Hermon at an altitude starting at 750 m with the highest summit being at 1,250 m. T ...

) is a Lebanese politician and the former leader of the

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. 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

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district on the Amal/

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

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and

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between 1995 and 1998 and between 2003 and 2004, he was succeeded by

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in 2004. He eventually lost his seat after the 2022 Lebanese general election and was replaced by Elias Jrade, 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 Greek Orthodox Christians from Lebanon Lebanese University alumni Members of the Parliament of Lebanon Labour ministers of Lebanon Ministers without portfolio of Lebanon People from Hasbaya District {{Lebanon-politician-stub