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Walid Jumblatt

وليد جنبلاط
Party leader Unverified

Long-time leader of the Progressive Socialist Party and de facto head of the Lebanese Druze community. Formally handed party leadership to his son Taymur Jumblatt in 2023 but remains the public face.

Country
Lebanon
Party
Progressive Socialist Party
Role
Party leader

Inherited position

Until Walid Jumblatt 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

Other politicians in Progressive Socialist Party

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 Jumblatt [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/walid-jumblatt
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Walid Jumblatt." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/walid-jumblatt.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-walid-jumblatt,
  title     = {{Walid Jumblatt}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/walid-jumblatt},
  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.