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Umma Party (Egypt)

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Chairman
  
Ahmed Al-Sabahi Khalil

Headquarters
  
Cairo

Founded
  
25 June 1983

House of Representatives
  
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Ideology
  
Islamic socialism, Islamism

The Umma Party (Arabic: حزب الأمة, Hizb Al-Umma) is a small Egyptian political party.

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History and profile

The party was established in 1983. It was the first party accepted by the Political Party Affairs Committee since the 1950s.

The party platform presses for promoting socialist democracy and adopting the Islamic sharia as the main source of legislation. The party expresses full support to efforts to establish peace with Israel. The Party nominated its head, Ahmed Al-Sabahi, to run for Egypt's first contested presidential elections. The Party fielded one candidate in the 2000 legislative polls.

Party principles

The party:

  • Considers Egypt a part of the Arab and Islamic world
  • Calls for establishing a socialist and democratic system in Egypt
  • Calls of the adoption of Islamic law as the main source of legislation
  • Supports all efforts to establish peace with Israel
  • The party calls for building the society on principles of labor and production

    • References

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