Lebanon party
Kataeb Party
حزب الكتائبChristian-rooted political party historically known as the Phalange.
- Founded
- 1936
- Current leader
- Samy Gemayel
- Founders
- Pierre Gemayel
- Site
- kataeb.org
Position — compass as of 2026-06-10
First-pass hand-coded estimate; pending second-pass external review. See methodology for the rubric.
Across the dataset
Open full comparison →Nearest
Closest by average Euclidean distance across all axes.
Most divergent
Farthest by the same metric. Useful for "anti-axis" framing.
Position — all axes
Briefs about Kataeb Party
Comparative political-science briefs pairing this party with others. 1 brief on file.
Members & affiliated figures
Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →
Associated legislation
Bills this party introduced, championed, or whose passage / blocking it's publicly associated with. Status indicates the bill's parliamentary outcome. All Lebanon bills →
Source documents
Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →
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Party platform English 2022-04-28 Kataeb Party — 'A Lebanese Vision: 178 Steps Towards a Better Lebanon' (2022 program, English edition)
Sovereignty is a constituent principle of the State. The institutions of the Lebanese state fell under the grip of Hezbollah, which controls the sovereignty aspects, launches drones independently from the legitimate…
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Manifesto Arabic 2022-01-01 المبادئ العامة — النظام العام لحزب الكتائب اللبنانية (Kataeb Party general principles, Articles 1–10)
المادة ١: يؤلف اللبنانيون واللبنانيات والمتحدرون والمتحدرات من اصل لبناني وكل من يلتزم مبادئ وأهداف الحزب والنظام العام، حزباً سياسياً إسمه "حزب الكتائب اللبنانية - الحزب الديمقراطي الاجتماعي اللبناني". المادة ٢: يؤمن…
Sources
Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.
- founded_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Founded 1936 by Pierre Gemayel as a Maronite nationalist movement
- current_leader_text en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Sami Gemayel has led the party since 2015
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Kataeb Party [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/kataeb
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Kataeb Party." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/kataeb.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-kataeb,
title = {{Kataeb Party}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Party profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/kataeb},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.