Egypt Arab Socialist Party
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Egypt Arab Socialist Party حزب مصر العربي الاشتراكي | |
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| Chairperson | Wahid Al-Uksory (last)[dubious – discuss] |
| Founder | Anwar Sadat Mamdouh Salem |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Dissolved | 2012 |
| Merged into | Congress Party[1][2] |
| Headquarters | Cairo |
| Ideology | Islamic socialism Arab socialism Arab Nationalism Infitah |
| Political position | Left-wing to Centre-right |
| National affiliation | Arab Socialist Union (1976–1978) |
| Colours | Black |
| House of Representatives | 0 / 568
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The Egypt Arab Socialist Party (Arabic: حزب مصر العربي الاشتراكي Hizb Misr Al-'Arabi Al-Ishtiraki) was a political party in Egypt.
History and profile
[edit]The party was established in 1976 by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and its head was Mamdouh Salem.[3] He served as the prime minister of Egypt from 1975 to 1978.[3]
The party generally pressed for preserving the gains of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.
It started as a political organisation that was part of the single-ruling party at the time, the Arab Socialist Union (ASU). And It participated in Republican Egypt's first ever multi-faction election in 1976. It won a large majority of seats in that election becoming the largest political faction in Egypt. In 1977 It became a political party after the ASU was dissolved, and it kept being the largest party in Egypt until 1978.
In 1978, President Sadat announced the creation of his new political party, the National Democratic Party (NDP). Not long after that announcement, all prominent party members and all members of Parliament of the EASP joined the President's new party along with MPs from other parties. Only a very small faction of the party stayed and it continued to function as a minor party, barely having any presence in Egypt's political scene.
Later, the party nominated its head, Wahid Al-Uksory, to run for Egypt's first multi-candidate presidential election in 2005. It was part of the Democratic Alliance for Egypt during the 2011–12 parliamentary election.
In 2012, The EASP along with other parties, merged to become the Congress Party.
Electoral history
[edit]Presidential elections
[edit]| Election | Party candidate | Votes | % | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Wahid Al-Uksory | 11,881 | 0.17% | Lost 
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People's Assembly of Egypt elections
[edit]| Election | Seats | +/– | Position | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 295 / 360
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 295
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1st
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Supermajority government (As part of ASU) |
| 1979 | 0 / 392
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 295
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N/A | N/A |
| 1984 | 0 / 458
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N/A | N/A |
| 1987 | 0 / 458
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|
N/A | N/A |
| 1990 | 0 / 454
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|
N/A | N/A |
| 1995 | 0 / 454
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|
N/A | N/A |
| 2000 | 0 / 454
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|
N/A | N/A |
| 2005 | 0 / 454
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N/A | N/A |
| 2010 | 0 / 518
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N/A | N/A |
| 2011-12 | 1 / 508
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1
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1st
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As part of the Democratic Alliance for Egypt |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "'Civil' powers unite to form 'Conference Party'". Egypt Independent. 18 September 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
- ^ ""تيار الاستقلال" يلتقي ممثلي القبائل بسيناء الثلاثاء" [The "Independence Movement" meets with tribal representatives in Sinai on Tuesday] (in Arabic). Al Masry Al Youm. 27 October 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ^ a b Aliboni, Roberto (3 January 2013). Egypt's Economic Potential. Routledge. p. 205. ISBN 978-1-135-08688-6. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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