March 8 Alliance

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The March 8 Alliance is a coalition of various political parties in Lebanon. The alliance forms the opposition against the government of the March 14 Alliance. The alliance has generally been regarded as pro-Syrian.

The name dates back to March 8, 2005 when different parties called for a mass demonstration in downtown Beirut in response to the Cedar Revolution. The demonstration thanked Syria for helping stop the Lebanese Civil War and the aid in stabilizing Lebanon and supporting the Lebanese resistance to the Israeli occupation. Main parties were Hezbollah, Amal Movement, Marada Movement, Lebanese Communist Party and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.

On February 6, 2006, the Free Patriotic Movement which was a part of the March 14 Alliance, and was part of the Cedar Revolution's mass demonstration on the 14th of March, 2005 signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hezbollah and thus was considered by the March 14 Alliance as part of the March 8 Alliance, something that the Free Patriotic Movement refuses and insists that they are an independent political movement that instigated the original 14 March movement in 1989 and currently disagrees of the practices of the March 14 Alliance.

In March and April 2008 Michel Murr and his bloc quit the March 8 Alliance and the Change and Reform Bloc of Michel Aoun.^[1]

Former Parliament Speaker Hussein el-Husseini resigned from parliament on August 12 2008.

The current alliance held 56/127 seats in the parliament before the 2009 elections and consisted of:

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References

1. ^ http://forum.tayyar.org/f8/michel-el-mur-independent-33138.html

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