The Reform and Development Party (RDP) was established in 2009 by Mohamed Anwar Esmat Al-Sadat (commonly known as Esmat Al-Sadat), a nephew of late Egyptian president Anwar Al-Sadat. Egyptian authorities turned down RDP's initial license application (...)
The Egyptian Tahrir Partyreceived its official license on 5 September 2011, though party founders claim that they were talking about forming a party before the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. Sufi leader Mohammad Alaa (...)
The late President Anwar al-Sadat created the upper house of parliament, known as the Shura Council, in 1980.
Law 120 defines the powers of that council, as well as the manner of selecting its members.
Although the role of the Shura Council is (...)
The People's Assembly, Egypt's lower house of parliament, is governed in accordance with “law 28 for 1972,” commonly known as “The People's Assembly law.”
This law was first introduced right after late president Anwar Al-Sadat changed the (...)
Ziad Al-Eleimi is a founding member of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party. He is also a lawyer, human rights activist, founding, and leading member of the Revolution's Youth Coalition (RYC).
Before the Revolution
Al-Eleimi's involvement in (...)
Established in the wake of the 25 January uprising, Al-Nour (“The Light”) Party is the largest of Egypt's three licensed Salafist parties (the other two being Al-Asala and Al-Fadila Parties). It was established by Al-Da‘wa Al-Salafiyya (“The (...)
A law regulating the exercise of political rights in Egypt was passed in 1956, ahead of Egypt's first parliamentary elections that followed the 1952 revolution.
The Law on the Exercise of Political Rights (no.73/1956) sets rules for the eligibility (...)
The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political party of the Muslim Brotherhood, could not have come into being without the 25 January revolution. Up to that time, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Egypt's most powerful Islamist organization, was not (...)
The Adl (Justice) Party was formally established in the wake of Mubarak's ouster. Its main founding member is Mostafa Al-Naggar, a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and current member of the Revolutionary Youth Coalition. The party's (...)
Born in 1963, Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Beltagyis a leading member of Egypt's influential Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement and secretary general of the Freedom and Justice Party, the MB's political arm. A medical doctor by profession, Al-Beltagy served as (...)
Shehata (known as Al-Sayed Al-Badawi) is the current leader of Al-Wafd party.
Al-Badawi, a business tycoon, has been on Al-Wafd's Higher Committee since 1989. He was Al-Wafd's Secretary General before being elected to the party's leadership in (...)
is the head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, which he co-founded with other activists and public figures after the January 25 Revolution.
In 1962, Abul-Ghar graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University and obtained his PhD in (...)
The eldest of three prominent Coptic Christian brothers at fifty-six years of age, Naguib Sawiris first began investing in Egypt's nascent telecom industry in the early 1990s. This strategy soon made him the first billionaire in his family. The (...)
A veteran politician, Osama Al-Ghazali Harb, born in 1947, is one of the founders of Egypt's liberal-leaning Democratic Front Party.
After graduating from Cairo University's faculty of economics and political science in 1969, he began his (...)
Born in 1968, Amr Hamzawy is an Egyptian political scientist and activist. He is the founder of the liberal Egypt Freedom Party, established in the aftermath of Egypt's January 25 Revolution.
Until February 2011, Hamzawy was a senior associate at (...)
is former generalcoordinatorof thecampaign supporting presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei. After the January 25 Revolution, he helped form Al-Adl Party.
Al-Naggar also runs the popular blog, “I am with them,” and, since 2007, has been actively (...)
Coalition members: Al-Nour Party, Al-Asala Party, Building and Development Party
Background and history:
The Islamist Bloc is an electoral coalition formed by three Islamist political parties with the aim to integrate their efforts in the (...)
Egypt population: (est.) 85 million
Citizens eligible to vote: (approx.) 50 million
Parliamentary composition: bicameral
The People's Assembly: the lower house
The Shura Council: upper consultative house
People's Assembly (...)
Prominent engineer and industrialist Mamdouh Hamza played a key role during Egypt's January 25 Revolution. Hamza is likely to continue influencing the political scene for the foreseeable future due to his close ties with various youth groups.
Born (...)
is a founding member of the recently licensed Al-Karama ("Dignity") Party and is known for his nationalist and Nasserist tendencies. Born in 1952, Iskandar is a writer and researcher and published a number of writings on Egyptian and Arab (...)
Bornin 1958 inthe Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya,Abul Ela Madi is Al-Wasat Party's leader and one of its most prominent cofounders. He graduated in1984 from Minya University with a degree in engineering and earned a law degree in 2008.
After (...)
Hossam Badrawi is a former member of the defunct National Democratic Party (NDP) and served as the former ruling party's secretary-general during President Hosni Mubarak's last days in office. He is also founder of the Union Party, widely seen as (...)
A former member of the influential Muslim Brotherhood (MB), MohamedAl-Qasas is one of the main founders of the Egyptian Current Party (Al-Tayyar Al-Masry). He is widely known for his prominent role within the MB's youth wing, of which he was a (...)
Party was “formed” in 1996 well before Egypt's January 25 Revolution. It was denied license four times until it was formally recognized as a legal political party by court order a week after Mubarak's ouster in February 2011. The Al-Wasat Party has (...)
Together with the Nasserist and Al-Wafd Parties, the National Progressive Unionist Party (NPUP) (commonly known as Al-Tagammu) was considered one of the main three opposition parties in the pre-revolution era. It initially emerged in 1975as a (...)