National Progressive Unionist Collection Party
| حزب التجمع الوطني التقدمي الوحدوي National-Progressive Unionist Rally Party |
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|---|---|
| Party leader | Sayed Abdel Eel |
| founding | 1976 |
| Headquarters | Cairo |
| Alignment |
Democratic socialism Left politics |
| Parliament seats | 4 of 508 |
| Number of members | approx. 150,000 |
| Website | http://www.al-ahaly.com/ |
The National-Progressive Unionist Collection Party ( Arabic حزب التجمع الوطني التقدمي الوحدوي, DMG Ḥizb at-taǧammuʿ al-waṭanī at-taqaddumī al-waḥdawī , commonly referred to as Tagammu ) is a socialist party in Egypt .
The left-wing party was formed from the left wing of the Arab Socialist Union in 1976 at the end of one-party rule . She is said to be the defender of the principles of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution . It followed a Marxist course and claims that it opposes attempts to undo the social gains of the 1952 revolution for workers, the poor and other low-wage workers.
The National Progressive Unionist Collection Party has a total of 150,000 members and publishes the weekly newspaper al-Ahali and the monthly party book El Ahali .
They boycotted the first presidential election in 2005 . In the parliamentary elections in November 2010 , the party won 5 of the 518 seats in the People's Assembly .
The party leadership consists of Khaled Mohieddin , the party founder, former chairman and member of the Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council, and Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed , the chairman.
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- ↑ May Choucri: The Left in Egypt after January 25th (PDF; 390 kB), Standpunkte International, December 2011, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, accessed on January 25, 2012
- ^ A b Daniel Steinvorth, Volkhard Windfuhr: Opposition parties: Mubarak's opponents come out of cover , Spiegel, January 30, 2011, accessed on January 25, 2012
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↑ Kai Hafez: Islamism and Secularism - Dualism of Political Culture , in “Holy War and Democracy”, Transcript, 2009
Party Profile Egypt (PDF; 589 kB), Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, as of October 31, 2005 -
↑ Navid Kermani: Beautiful New Orient: Reports of Cities and Wars , CH Beck, 2003, p. 48
Laura Struwe: Democratic development potentials in the Middle East using the example of Egypt and Iran , GRIN Verlag 2007, p. 29 - ↑ Ralph Glänzel: Egypt and the stability of the Middle East, ES Mittler, 1988, p. 262.