CAIRO: Egyptian presidential candidate Ayman Nour announced yesterday that he would be submitting official papers to the Committee of Parties' Affairs to establish the New al-Ghad Party as a Civil Liberal Party on Wednesday. “The new al-Ghad Party does not mean giving up the old one, it means resuming the legal fight,” Nour said in a statement. Nour has also said that the new party will run in the parliamentary elections as part of the Civil Democratic Alliance through its 2,000 sheet program. The number of party nominees will be determined after holding negotiations with the allied powers.” He has also announced his nomination for president through the new al-Ghad party and has also appointed a new leader, chairman and high committee for his party. The party leader, Nour pointed out, is a new position within the party. “Revolution, Freedom … and the Third Way: Religion for Allah and Home for all” will be the slogan of the new party, Nour continued. Nour has collected 7,000 powers of attorney in over 10 Egyptian governorates. According to newly appointed al-Ghad executives, the two parties will be merged. The presidential nominee said their objectives include greater religious tolerance within Egypt, reviving a national sense of patriotism and identity, applying a modern democratic system and applying a free and just economic system. Nour was imprisoned in 2005, the same year he ran against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the country's first multi-candidate elections, by the Mubarak government for allegedly forging membership applications for the al-Ghad Party, but was released in 2009. BM
