New Wafd party

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حزب الوفد الجديد
New Wafd party
al-Sayyid al-Badawi
Party leader al-Sayyid al-Badawi
Deputy Chairman Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour
founding 4th February 1978
Headquarters Giza
Alignment national liberal , liberal ,
secular
Colours) green
Parliament seats Popular assembly : 42 out of 508
In the Shura Council : 14 out of 180
Number of members 2 million
Website http://www.alwafd.org/

The New Wafd Party ( Arabic حزب الوفد الجديد Hizb al-Wafd al-Jadid , DMG Ḥizb al-Wafd al-Ǧadīd  'New Delegation Party ', abbreviation HWJ ) is a national liberal and center-right oriented party in Egypt . Their motto is "Rights over power, the people over government".

The chairman of the New Wafd is al-Sayyid al-Badawi , after he won the internal elections on May 28, 2010 against Mahmoud Abaza , who in turn became party chairman in 2006 as the successor to Numan Gumaa . Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour is its current Secretary General. The party publishes al-Wafd newspaper today .

history

The Neue Wafd is the successor party to the Wafd party founded in 1919 , one of the oldest and historically most active political parties in Egypt, which was crushed after the revolution of 1952 . It was re-established in 1977 under the presidency of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Anwar as-Sadat and was given its current name in 1983. The Neue Wafd follows almost exactly the same party line as the formerly aristocratic Wafd party during Egypt's liberal experiment in the 1920s.

In the parliamentary and presidential elections in November and December 2005, the party only won 6 of a total of 454 seats in the People's Assembly , and its presidential candidate Numan Gumaa received just 2.9% of the total votes cast for the president.

After the revolution in Egypt in 2011 , the party temporarily joined the electoral bloc Democratic Alliance for Egypt , which, however, is dominated by the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and its political freedom and justice party. In the course of this, the party leader al-Badawi called on January 28, 2011 for a transitional government for Egypt and spoke out in favor of new elections and a constitutional amendment.

Political goals

The New Wafd Party places itself as the ideological middle between the main historical traditions of Arab socialism and private capitalism . She criticized the government's encouragement of foreign private investment and justified a more balanced approach to relations between the private and public sectors.

The party officially urges political, economic and social reforms, the promotion of democracy, the preservation of fundamental freedoms and human rights and the preservation of national unity. She also calls for the abolition of emergency legislation , for the solution of unemployment and housing problems, for the expansion of health care and for the development of the educational system.

Relationship to Islamism

In 1984 the New Wafd Party formed an alliance with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood before the parliamentary elections . The results were disappointing, however, as it received only 15% of the vote.

On June 13, 2011, the party announced a new alliance (the Democratic Alliance for Egypt) with the Freedom and Justice Party , the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood , to present a partial list of candidates for the 2011/2012 parliamentary elections in Egypt . Executive members of the Neue Wafd criticized the cooperation of the secular party with the radical Islamists. The Wafd resigned from the Democratic Alliance before the party lists were made available.

In the 2011 election campaign, some representatives of the New Wafd Party also used clichés and conspiracy theories spread by Islamists. In an interview with The Washington Times in July 2011, Vice-Chairman of the New Wafd Party, Ahmed Ezz el-Arab , dismissed the Holocaust as a “lie” and the diary of Anne Frank as a “fake”. He also claimed that the 9/11 attacks were actually carried out by the Mossad , the CIA and America's "military-industrial complex" , and that Osama bin Laden was an "American agent."

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