Branches opened for the Syrian parties

The Qatari daily al-Watan highlighted in a report from Damascus in its Tuesday's issue the news that the Syrian communist party ( Youssef Faisal branch) has opened a headquarters in al-Raqq while the Communist party ( Khaled Bakdash wing) has opened a headquarters in Homs. The paper added, according to well-informed sources that several parties at the National Progressive front are intending to open similar branches.

The sources continued that these developments take place at a time when intellectual and cultural forums are increasing with some of them have been changed into political parties. The sources indicated that the special forum for the group of Marxist Syrian intellectuals which includes in its membership an elite of political elite, including Michael Kilo, Yassin Shukr, Adel Ibrahim, Nazih Abu Afash and Hussein al-Awdat is about to become a political party which has a project in several selected cities and provinces.

Meantime, Rabab al-Atasi who popularized her father's club ( Jamal al-Atasi) is seriously thinking of establishing a political party if she finds a positive result for that.