In a press conference, MP Ashraf Rifi announced his submission of a bill aimed at banning the Baath Party in Lebanon. He explained that this project includes changing all the names of roads and places that carry connotations related to the Syrian regime or the Baath Party.
Rifi stressed that this proposal stems from his belief that “the Syrian regime that died must be buried in our society,” and he saw that the survival of these symbols represents a political and moral extension of a phase that has passed.
He also explained that the proposed law requires the dissolution of all associations that have a direct or indirect connection to the Syrian Baath Party, with the confiscation of all their immovable and movable property and the transfer of their ownership to the Lebanese state, in accordance with the approved legal procedures.
Representative Ashraf Rifi’s submission of a proposal to ban the Baath Party in Lebanon comes against a political background that has witnessed an escalation in recent years in demands to end any symbolic manifestations or political presence linked to the Syrian regime within Lebanese institutions and public spaces.
