Marada Movement

Marada Movement تيار المردة
Abbreviation	MM
President	Suleiman Frangieh, Jr.
Founder	Suleiman Frangieh
Founded	1967 (1967) (as militia) 1991 (1991) (as party)
Headquarters	Zgharta, Lebanon
Ideology	Lebanese nationalism Anti Zionism Christian democracy
Political position	Right-wing[1]
Religion	Maronite Catholicism
National affiliation	March 8 Alliance
Colors	Blue[2] and green[3]
Parliamentary bloc	Independent National Bloc
Parliament of Lebanon	2 / 128
Cabinet of Lebanon	2 / 24
Party flag
Website
elmarada.org
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The Marada Movement (Arabic: تيار المردة, romanized: Tayyār Al-Marada) is a Lebanese political party and a former militia active during the Lebanese Civil War named after the legendary Marada (also called Mardaites) warriors of the early Middle Ages that fought on the external edge of the Byzantine Empire. Originally designated the Marada Brigade (لواء المردة Liwa al-Marada), the group initially emerged as the personal militia of Suleiman Frangieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the war in 1975, which also had a Parliamentary wing known as the Frangieh Bloc.^[4] They were also initially known as the Zgharta Liberation Army, after Frangieh's hometown of Zgharta in northern Lebanon.