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Solidarity Party of Afghanistan حزب همبستگی افغانستان | |
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Leader | Dawood Razmak [1] |
Founded | 17 April 2004 |
Headquarters | Kabul |
Membership | 30,000 (approx.) [2] |
Ideology |
Secularism Social democracy Anti- Jihadism Democratic socialism Progressivism Socialist feminism Democratisation Reformism Anti-imperialism Left-wing nationalism |
Political position | Left-wing |
International affiliation | Progressive International [3] |
Website | |
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The Solidarity Party of Afghanistan ( Dari: حزب همبستگی افغانستان; Hezb-e Hambastagi-ye Afghanistan; abbr. SPA) is a minor political party in Afghanistan. [4] The party platform focuses on four main issues: secularism, women's rights, democracy, and opposition to NATO's Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan. [5] The party is strongly critical of the Afghan government, which it views as corrupt, fundamentalist, and dominated by warlords. [5] The party claims a membership of some 30,000. [5]
The party boycotted the 2005 and 2010 parliamentary elections. [4]
The party was suspended in June 2012 following a Kabul demonstration in late April 2012 where the party accused a number of Afghan leaders, including former leaders and commanders, of committing war crimes over the last three decades of conflict, and demanded they be brought to justice. [4]
The SPA boycotted the 2004, 2009, and 2014 Afghan Presidential elections as the party alleges that an individual cannot be elected without the approval of the US government. [5] The party does, however, take part in provincial elections as it believes these elections to be more democratic and harder for central government to control or rig. [5] No SPA members ran in the 2013 provincial elections, although the party did support certain candidates. [5] The party condemned the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria.
According to photographic evidence from 24 March 2024, the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan were involved in the creation of a monument for the Murder of Farkhunda Malikzada in Kabul, where she was lynched. [6]