Egypt Arab Socialist Party

Egypt Arab Socialist Party

حزب مصر العربي الاشتراكي
Egypt Arab Socialist Party حزب مصر العربي الاشتراكي
Chairperson	Wahid Al-Uksory (last)[dubious – discuss]
Founder	Anwar Sadat; Mamdouh Salem
Founded	1976
Dissolved	2012
Merged into	Congress Party
Headquarters	Cairo
Ideology	Islamic socialism; Arab socialism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Arab Socialist Union; (1976–1978)
Colours	Black
House of Representatives	0 / 568
	Politics of Egypt; Political parties; Elections;

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

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. During that year, President Sadat announced the creation of his new political party, the National Democratic Party (NDP). Not long after that announcement, all prominent members and all members of Parliament of the EASP joined the President's new party along with other members of parliament. 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

Presidential elections

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Result
2005	Wahid Al-Uksory	11,881	0.17%	Lost N

People's Assembly of Egypt elections

Election	Seats	+/–	Position	Result
1976	295 / 360	295	1st	Supermajority government (As part of ASU)
1979	0 / 392	295	N/A	N/A
1984	0 / 458		N/A	N/A
1987	0 / 458		N/A	N/A
1990	0 / 454		N/A	N/A
1995	0 / 454		N/A	N/A
2000	0 / 454		N/A	N/A
2005	0 / 454		N/A	N/A
2010	0 / 518		N/A	N/A
2011-12	1 / 508	1	1st	As part of the Democratic Alliance for Egypt

References

^ "'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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[egyptindep-1] "'Civil' powers unite to form 'Conference Party'". Egypt Independent. 18 September 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2013.

[almasryalyoum-2] ""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.

[Aliboni2013-3] 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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