Egyptian Social Democratic Party

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الحزب المصرى الديمقراطى الاجتماعى
Egyptian Social Democratic Party
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Secretary General Mervat Tallawy
founding March 29, 2011
Headquarters Cairo , Egypt
Alignment Progressivism , secular , left-wing liberalism , social democracy
Colours) orange
Parliament seats
4/569
( 2015 )
Number of members 30,000
International connections Socialist International

Progressive Alliance

European party Party of European Socialists (observer)
Website http://www.egysdp.com/

The Egyptian Social Democratic Party ( Arabic الحزب المصرى الديمقراطى الاجتماعى, DMG al-Ḥizb al-Maṣrī al-Dimuqrāṭī al-Iǧtimāʿī ) is a left-wing liberal political party in Egypt . She is a consultative member of the Socialist International and an observer of the Party of European Socialists .

history

The party was founded after the 2011 revolution through the merger of two liberal parties, the Egyptian Democratic Party and the Liberal Egyptian Party on March 29, 2011. The most important founding members were the medical professor Mohamed Abou El-Ghar , the filmmaker Daoud Abdel Sayed , the activist Amr Hamzawy and Mervat Tallawy , the former UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) and Hasim al-Beblawi . However, Amr Hamzawy resigned from the Egyptian Social Democratic Party in April 2011 to found the Freedom Egypt party on May 28, 2011 .

The SDP took part in the parliamentary elections of November 2011 and January 2012 as part of the Egyptian bloc with the Free Egyptian Party (FEP) and the Tagammu . With a total of 8.9% of the vote and 34 of the 498 elected seats, the bloc became the fourth-largest force, 16 of which went to the SDP. The subsequent elections to the House of Lords (Shura) boycotted the FEP, so that the Egyptian bloc consisted only of SDP and Tagammu. The two together won 8 of the 180 elected seats.

In November 2012, the SDP joined forces with other secular and liberal parties to form the National Salvation Front in order to oppose the increasingly authoritarian rule of President Mohammed Morsi . After the military coup on July 3, 2013 , which overthrew Morsi, SDP member Hasim al-Beblawi was appointed interim prime minister.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lina El Wardani: Ahram Online's idiot's guide to Egypt's emergent political landscape. In: al-Ahram Online. April 20, 2011, accessed June 25, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b c Political Party Monitor Egypt 2011. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , November 27, 2011, accessed on May 20, 2012 .
  3. ^ Egyptian liberal parties merge. In: Hürriyet Daily News . March 30, 2011, accessed June 25, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Presentation of the Board of Egyptian SDP ( Memento from June 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (in Arabic), accessed on June 25, 2011
  5. ↑ Martin Gehlen: Muslim Brothers do not participate in government. “We don't do common cause with putschists.” Der Tagesspiegel, July 10, 2013.
  6. ↑ a b Al-Beblawi becomes the new head of government. Zeit Online, July 9, 2013.
  7. ↑ Hamzawy resigns from party over statement on military. AhramOnline, April 12, 2011, accessed June 28, 2011 .