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Progressive Socialist Party

الحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي

Druze-rooted social-democratic party founded by Kamal Jumblatt and currently led by his son Walid.

Family
leftist socdem
Standing
Coalition (major)
Review
Verified
Founded
1949
Current leader
Taymour Jumblatt
Founders
Kamal Jumblatt
Site
www.psp.org.lb

Position

No position assigned yet for this party.

Members & affiliated figures

Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →

Recent events

Political events involving this party — formations, mergers, leadership changes, designation shifts. All events at /pulse →

  • Confirmed Leader changed June 25, 2023

    Walid Jumblatt hands PSP leadership to his son Taymour

    After leading the Progressive Socialist Party for 46 years, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt announced his resignation as party chief on 25 May 2023; at the PSP general conference in Ain Zhalta his son, MP Taymour Jumblatt (41), was elected unopposed and consecrated as PSP leader on 25 June 2023 — a dynastic transfer of the party, the Druze za'ama and the Mukhtara seat.

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 →

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 1949 by Kamal Jumblatt
  • founders_text en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Kamal Jumblatt (1917-1977), assassinated by Syrian agents
  • current_leader_text en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Taymur Jumblatt formally party head since 2023; father Walid remains dominant figure

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). Progressive Socialist Party [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved October 9, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/psp
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Progressive Socialist Party." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed October 9, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/psp.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-psp,
  title     = {{Progressive Socialist Party}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Party profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/psp},
  urldate   = {2026-10-09},
  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 October 9, 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 = {2026-10-09},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.