Reform and Development Party
| حزب الإصلاح والتنمية Reform and Development Party Misruna |
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| Party leader | Muhammad Anwar Ismat as-Sadat |
| Deputy Chairman | Raymond Lakah |
| founding | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Cairo |
| Alignment | liberalism |
| Colours) | gold |
| Parliament seats | 2 of 270 in the Shura Council |
| Website | http://www.rdpegypt.org/ |
The reform and development party "Our Egypt" ( Arabic حزب الإصلاح والتنمية, DMG Ḥizb al-ʾIṣlāḥ wa-t-Tanmiya ; Abbreviation RDP from English Reform and Development Party ) is a liberal political party in Egypt that has split off from the Democratic Front Party.
It was founded in 2009 by Muhammad Anwar Ismat as-Sadat , the nephew of the former Egyptian President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Anwar as-Sadat , and by the Egyptian billionaire Raymond Lakah .
The Reform and Development Party took part in the parliamentary elections in Egypt 2011/2012 and won 10 of the 508 seats in the Egyptian People's Assembly .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Political Party Monitor Egypt 2011. (PDF) Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , November 27, 2011, accessed on May 22, 2012 .
- ↑ Masrawy: Egypt Politics News, January 7, 2012
- ↑ Islamists win 70% of Egypt People's Assembly party list seats. Ahramonline, January 22, 2012, accessed January 22, 2012 .