Seventh from left is Khaled Bakdash, a outspoken critic of Nasser who was the first communist MP in the Arab World. President Nasser stands in the middle surrounded by the Damascus MP Farzat al-Mamlouk and Speaker of Parliament Nazem al_Qudsi. Haile Surour, the Bedouin MP is second from right, and fourth from right is Salah al-Bitar, one of the co-founders of the Baath Party.