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Egypt Arab Socialist Party
حزب مصر العربي الاشتراكي
ChairpersonWahid Al-Uksory (last)[dubiousdiscuss]
FounderAnwar Sadat
Mamdouh Salem
Founded1976 (1976)
Dissolved2012
Merged intoCongress Party[1][2]
HeadquartersCairo
IdeologyIslamic socialism
Arab socialism
Political positionLeft-wing
National affiliationArab Socialist Union
(1976–1978)
Colours  Black
House of Representatives
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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

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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

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Presidential elections

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

People's Assembly of Egypt elections

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "'Civil' powers unite to form 'Conference Party'". Egypt Independent. 18 September 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  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.
  3. ^ 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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