Front of Patriotic and National Parties
The Front of Patriotic and National Parties – FPNP or Front Patriotique des Parties Nacionaux in French, was a Syrian-backed coalition of Lebanese Political parties and militias formed in the late 1970s.Origins
It was formed in late March 1976 at West Beirut by breakaway sections of the Lebanese National Movement, which included the pro-Syrian factions of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Lebanon Region, the Shia Amal Movement led by Musa al-Sadr, Kamal Shatila's Union of Working People's Forces and the Kurdish Razkari Party.The alliance lasted until mid-1982, when it collapsed together with their LNM rival in the wake of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
