Syria and Hezbollah are joining efforts to bridge gaps reportedly fueling among the rank-and-file of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party by re- launching a newspaper that would eventually reunite them together, private reliable sources said.

The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the project of reprinting “Al-Binaa” newspaper, that started last year but was discontinued for unknown reasons, is on the move again in light of the upcoming parliamentary elections and the heated feuds among the Syrian-backed SSNP.

They added that both Syria and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah have contributed recently to putting Al-Binaa on the newsstands on daily basis.

This step comes after several members in the North and Beirut reportedly left the party amid complaints that the SSNP has turned into a subservient to the Syrian regime and was implicated in sectarian sedition schemes in Lebanon, the sources added.

Al-Binaa newspaper is run by Assad Hardan, the current SSNP leader, who faces a strong opposition within the party for his “practices of dictatorship”, as one recently distributed leaflet described him.

The sources added, the party received nearly 5 million dollars of which half was granted to Hardan by Chief of Intelligence in Damascus and its rural areas General Rustom Ghazaleh in three different payments in the last three months.

The current leadership of the party expects Hardan to exploit the newspaper for intensifying his media electoral campaign and to give an impression of power within the Party’s ranks.

The source points out that SSNP receives up to 700 thousand dollars on monthly basis from Hezbollah and Syria. Moreover the party had received one million dollars as a reward for its May 7 involvement in the aggression on the capital as an incentive to continue with its role and ensure the protection of the Syrian embassy located in Hamra.

The sources concluded, Syria and Hezbollah allocated a special budget to enable SSNP to contact its expatriates in order to urge them to vote for the opposition in the upcoming elections due June 7th. The party presented to Ghazaleh lists of people they intend to contact to receive money accordingly.