Cairo - As Egypt marks the fourth anniversary of the June 30 revolution, it was necessary to shed light on the ultraconservative Salafist Al-Nour Party, which played a role in this great revolution before vanishing into thin air in a very mysterious way. Over the past four years, the party had no any activity on the ground and lost many of its supporters, particularly after it suffered a big defeat in the parliamentary elections in 2015.
Not only has the party failed to win the one party list constituency – the Nile West Delta – it chose to run in the first stage, but almost none of its 160 candidates who ran as independents was able to win a seat.
The party's presidential council convenes once every week in order to develop a five-year plan, a senior Al-Nour official said.
Salah Abdel Maaboud, a member of the higher committee of Al-Nour Party, told Al-Bawaba News on Friday that his party will enter a new phase in the coming period, declining to give further details on that score.
The party has made many achievements, but media outlets do not focus on our work, he added.
Abdel Maaboud voiced the party's keenness on communicating with its sub-committees in governorates on a regular basis to serve the Egyptian people.
The party will appear in a new form following Eid Al-Fitr, Shaaban Abdel Alim, a member of the party's higher committee, said.
"All Egyptian parties are inactive at the moment as the political situation in Egypt suffers a standstill," he added.
Dr. Hassan Salama, a professor of political science at Cairo University, described Al-Nour's disappearance from the scene following the June 30 revolution as a kind of "political deceit". "The party's leaders prefer to be idle now in order to maintain relations with the Egyptian regime," he added.
