Wiam Maher Najib wahab, born October 11, 1964, one of the most important Druze leaders in Lebanon. He is the head of the Arab Tawhid Party, which he founded on May 26, 2006. He was in the 2018 parliamentary elections against the March 8 and March 14 forces, and the slogan of his battle was the war on corruption, and the list that led by a number of independent candidates for March 8 and 14 He received 13,000 votes and defeated candidate Marwan Hamadeh by preferential votes, with 7,391 votes against 7,266. Wiam Wahab began his political career in the 1990s by fighting political feudalism in the region with a group of Illuminati and independents. A group of illuminators, educated and anti-feudalists turned around. He was the target of assassination attempts in the town of Kafrahim in 2008 and in the Hasabia region in 2006 for rejecting the feudal reality in the Druze community. He ran for parliamentary elections in 1996 and won 12,000 votes. He was also appointed environment minister in October 2004 and was known in his ministry for transparency and cleanliness and worked for a clean environment before Rafic Hariri assassination and the resignation of the government. He heads the Arab Unification Party that he founded on May 26, 2006, and whose principles are based on cross-border: secularism, sects, doctrines and narrow fanaticism, and his rejection of all forms of injustice, exploitation, feudalism, deprivation and sanctification of public freedoms and human rights. Wiam Wahhab was subjected to assassination attempts in the town of Kfarhim Chouf District in 2008 and in the Hassbaya region in 2006 because of his rejection of the feudal reality in the Druze community. In 2006 Wahhab founded the Arab Tawhid party, which was involved in various feuds and fights against the Druze who support the Progressive Socialist Party of Walid Jumblatt.
Controversy
During a television interview, Wahhab made disparaging comments about the Niqab which Saudi women wear. Sunni Muslim groups protested. Wahhab apologized to Saudi women for the niqab remarks. Wahhab commented on Turkey's warnings to Syria during the 2011 uprising by claiming that Syria and Bashar al-Assad were prepared to launch 100,000 rockets at Turkey if it tried to invade.
