Ahrar Party (Egypt)
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حزب الأحرار الاشتراكيين المصري Egyptian Party of Socialist Liberals |
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| Party leader | Helmy Ahmed Salim |
| founding | 1976 |
| Headquarters | Cairo |
| Alignment | Liberal Democracy |
| Colours) | black |
| Number of members | 65,000 |
| Website | Party newspapers: Al-Ahrar - weekly, Al-Haqiqa - weekly, Al-Nour - weekly |
The Liberal Party or Ahrar Party ( Arabic حزب الأحرار, DMG Hizb al-Aārār ; Long form Egyptian Party of Socialist Liberals , Arabic حزب الأحرار الاشتراكيين المصري, DMG Hizb al-aḥrār al-ištirākiyīn al-miṣrī ) is an Egyptian party .
The party generally takes a liberal - conservative political line.
history
The Ahrar party developed from the right wing, the "Organization of Socialist Liberals" , as part of the 1974 rescheduling decision to divide the Arab Socialist Union into three political platforms. It was founded as a party in 1976. Under the leadership of Mustafa Kamel Murad, it represented the political tendencies of the Free Officers Movement from 1952.
In the 1987 general election , the Ahrar party took part in the Muslim Brotherhood- led “Islamic Alliance” , which won a total of 60 seats, most of which, however, went to the Muslim Brotherhood. Most recently, the party won one of 444 seats in the popular assembly in the parliamentary elections in Egypt in 2000 . However, the party failed to win seats in the next parliamentary elections in 2005 . Also in the 2011/2012 elections , when the party ran as part of the Democratic Alliance , the party failed to get back into parliament.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralph Glänzel: Egypt and the stability of the Middle East, ES Mittler, 1988, p. 262.
- ^ “Las elecciones legislativas del 27 de mayo de 1985 y la apertura democrática egipcia” , Gema Martín Muñoz, Revista española de investigaciones sociológicas REIS - Julio / septiembre de 1986 (35/86), pp. 149-178
- ↑ Benjamin Dörfler: The Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt , Islam, Islamism and Islamic Extremism, Böhlau Verlag, 2008, p. 187