Tripoli Bloc

{{Update|date=November 2010}}

{{Infobox political party

| colorcode = Blue

| name = Tripoli Bloc

| native_name = التكتل الطرابلسي

| logo =

| leader = Mohammad Safadi

| foundation = 1960s

| ideology = Liberalism

| position = Centre

| national = March 14 Alliance

| country = Lebanon

| headquarters = Tripoli, Lebanon

| seats1_title = Parliament of Lebanon
(2005)

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|5|128|hex=#0000FF}}

| seats2_title = Cabinet of Lebanon

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|30|hex=#0000FF}}

| website =

}}

The Tripoli Bloc has been one of the political blocs present in the Lebanese Parliament. In 1961, the bloc had four members in the parliament.{{cite book|editor=Yitzhak Oron|title=Middle East Record Volume 2, 1961|year=1961|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vzZ71Eh5QvMC&pg=PA378|publisher=The Moshe Dayan Center|page=378|id=GGKEY:4Q1FXYK79X8}} All members of the bloc are deputies from Tripoli (Lebanon). At the elections in June 2005, the bloc was part of the March 14 Alliance and the Rafik Hariri Martyr List that won the elections. It remained committed to the basic premises of the March 14 Alliance in 2008.{{cite news|title=Safadi stresses his Tripoli bloc's ties to March 14|url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/Apr/12/Safadi-stresses-his-Tripoli-blocs-ties-to-March-14.ashx#axzz2HZvK2UD1|access-date=10 January 2013|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=12 April 2008|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 February 2017

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217223742/http://www.dailystar.com.lb//News/Lebanon-News/2008/Apr-12/48616-safadi-stresses-his-tripoli-blocs-ties-to-march-14.ashx}}

Members

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