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Walid Joumblatt

وليد جنبلاط
Party leader Verified

Lebanese politician and leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP); de facto leader of the Druze community in Lebanon. Pivotal swing-voter in Lebanese coalition politics for four decades; formally handed party leadership to his son Taymur in 2023 but remains the dominant figure.

Country
Lebanon
Party
Progressive Socialist Party
Role
Party leader

Inherited position

Until Walid Joumblatt is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.

In Lebanon (via Progressive Socialist Party)
-10 -10 -5 -5 5 5 10 10 Libertarian · Statist Libertarian · Market Authority · Statist Authority · Market 1 parties 2 parties 3 parties religious-christian centroid · 3 parties ← Statist Market → Libertarian ↑ ↓ Authority Social ↕ Economic ↔ Amal Movement (LB) · in government · Economic -3.5, Social -6.0 LB Amal Movement Free Patriotic Movement (LB) · in government · Economic +2.0, Social -2.0 LB Free Patriotic Movement Kataeb Party (LB) · Economic +5.0, Social -1.5 LB Kataeb Party Hezbollah (LB) · in government · Economic -5.0, Social -8.0 LB Hezbollah Lebanese Forces (LB) · Economic +5.0, Social -1.0 LB Lebanese Forces Progressive Socialist Party (LB) · in government · Economic -4.0, Social +4.0 LB Progressive Socialist Party
Progressive Socialist Party's spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press Sectarian power-sharing → Post-sectarian / civic state
Progressive Socialist Party

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Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

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). Walid Joumblatt [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/walid-joumblatt
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Walid Joumblatt." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/walid-joumblatt.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-walid-joumblatt,
  title     = {{Walid Joumblatt}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/walid-joumblatt},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  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 August 6, 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 = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

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