Justice Party (Egypt)

The Justice Party (Arabic: حزب العدل‎, romanized: Ḥizb el-Adl) is a political party in Egypt. It was founded after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 by a group of people from different movements that led to the revolution including the April 6 Youth Movement, the National Association for Change and Kefaya.[4]

Justice Party

حزب العدل
Ḥizb el-Adl
Founded2011 (2011)
HeadquartersGarden City, Cairo
IdeologyBig tent[1]
Centrism
Secularism
Political positionCentre[2]
National affiliationCivil Democratic Movement[3]
ColoursRed, White and Black
House of Representatives
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Website
eladl.org

History

After the 2011 Egyptian revolution, a group of youth taking part in the revolution announced they would be founding their own party. In May 2011, the party was officially founded[5] after gathering 5,000 signatures from all across Egypt. Its foundation was celebrated with the first party conference being held in Al-Azhar Park.[6] It supports centrism and secularism.[5]

The founding committee for the Justice Party included democracy activists such as Mostafa el-Naggar, Ahmed Shoukry, Abdel Monem Emam in addition to Hisham Akram and Mohamed Gabr. The party had a group of consultants which included Egyptian economist Mona ElBaradei, sister of presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian political scientist Amr el-Shobaky, as well as Abdelgelil Mostafa, the general coordinator of Egyptian Movement for Change, also known as Kefaya and Egyptian poet and activist Abdul Rahman Yusuf, son of Islamic theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

The party fielded candidates for about a third of Egyptian parliamentary seats during the 2011-2012 parliamentary elections that started in November 2011.[7]

Political ideology

The Justice Party welcomes people from different political ideologies on the political right and left, and described itself as a party of political programs rather than a certain political ideology.[7] Its policies focus on solving education, health and employment issues in Egypt as well as achieving the demands called for by the Egyptian revolution.

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References
  1. "Al-Adl", Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 12 November 2011, archived from the original on 29 April 2014, retrieved 28 April 2014
  2. Centrist Adl Party backs Sabahi for Egypt president, Ahram Online, 28 April 2014, retrieved 17 October 2014
  3. "Eight liberal and leftist Egyptian parties to boycott 2018 presidential elections". Ahram Online. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  4. "El Adl Party celebrates its founding after gathering member signatures".
  5. "A Partial Guide to the Egyptian Political Parties". Connected in Cairo. 15 November 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  6. "El Adly Party founding conference held in Al Azhar Park". Youm7. Archived from the original on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  7. "العدل أول حزب وسط يستند إلي قاعدة من شباب الثورة ElAdl Party, the first party to include youth of the revolution". Al Ahram. 6 May 2011. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
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