Umma Party (Egypt)
Appearance
Umma Party Hizb Al-Umma حزب الأمة | |
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Chairman | Ahmed Al-Sabahi Khalil |
Founded | 25 June 1983 |
Headquarters | Cairo |
Ideology | Islamic socialism |
House of Representatives | 0 / 568
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TheUmma Party(Arabic:حزب الأمة,Hizb Al-Umma) is a smallEgyptianpolitical party.
History and profile
[edit]The party was established in 1983.[1][2]It was the first party accepted by the Political Party Affairs Committee since the 1950s.[2]
Party principles
[edit]The party:[1]
- Considers Egypt part of theAraband Islamic world
- Calls for establishing asocialistand democratic system in Egypt
- Calls of the adoption ofIslamic lawas the main source of legislation
- Supports all efforts to establish peace withIsrael
- Calls for building a society on the principles of labor and production
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ab"The Ummah Party".State Information Service.Archived fromthe originalon 19 January 2007.
- ^abHamdy A. Hassan (2011)."Civil Society in Egypt under the Mubarak Regime"(PDF).Afro Asian Journal of Social Sciences.2(2).Retrieved5 October2014.