National Democratic Rally (Syria)

The National Democratic Rally or National Democratic Gathering (Arabic: التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي, at-tajammuʻ al-waţanī ad-dīmūqrāţī) is a opposition alliance in Syria previously banned under the Ba'athist government, comprising five political parties of a secularist, pan-Arabist, Arab nationalist and socialist bent.

Hassan Ismail Abdelazim, leader of the Democratic Arab Socialist Union, is the official spokesman of the Rally.

At his death in the year 2000, his role was inherited by his successor at the helm of DASU, Hassan Ismail Abdelazim.

The Rally was later active in the Damascus Spring of 2000, holding seminars and advocating political freedom.

Most leaders and many members are today old men, after joining or founding their respective parties in the early 1960s to late 1970s, and have had relatively poor success in appealing to younger generations of Syrians.