List of political parties in Egypt

• Egyptian Arab Socialist Party (1976).
• The Socialist Liberal Party (1976–2011).
• National Progressive Unionist Party (Ḥizb al-Tagammu' al-Watani al-Taqadomi al-Wahdawi – 1976).
• Parties established later by declaration by the Parties Affairs Committee (10):^[4]
• The
  New Wafd Party
  (1978).
• The National Democratic Party (1978–2011).
• The
  Socialist Labour Party
  (1978).
• The National Conciliation Party (2000).
• Al-Ghad Party (2004).
• The Free Social Constitutional Party (Al-Hizb Al-Distouri – 2004).
• The Democratic Peace Party (2005).
• The Conservative Party (2006).
• The Free Republican Party (Al-Hizb al-Gomhory al-Ahrar – 2006).
• The Democratic Front Party (2007).

Parties established by judicial rulings (11):^[4]

• The National Umma Party (1983).
• The Democratic Unionist Party (1990).
• The Egyptian Green Party (1990).
• Young Egypt Party (Misr Al-Fatah – 1990).
• People's Democratic Party (1992).
• The Arab Democratic Nasserist Party (1992).
• Social Justice Party (1993).
• The Solidarity Party (Hizb Al-Takaful – 1995).
• Egypt 2000 Party (2001).
• Democratic Generation Party (Hizb El-Geel Al-Democrati – 2002).
• Egypt Youth Party (2005)

Post-2011 revolution (2011–2013)

In the wake of the January 2011 uprising in Egypt, the deposition of Hosni Mubarak and dissolution of his National Democratic Party that ruled for over three decades, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces issued a decree-law 12/2011 amending certain provisions of the Political Parties Law 40/1977,^[5] after which many parties were formed.

The legislation was however criticized as discriminatory. Under the law new parties are now required to have at least 5,000 members from at least ten of

• Freedom and Justice Party (2011–2014)
• Ghad al-Thawra (splintered from Al-Ghad – 2011)
• Free Egyptians party (Al-Masrieen Al-Ahrar – 2011)
• The Conference Party (Al-Mo'tamar)
• The Socialist Popular Alliance Party (Al-Tahaluf al-Sha'bi – 2011)
• The Egyptian Social Democratic Party (Al-Masri El-Democrati, merger of the Liberal Egyptian Party, and the Egyptian Democratic Party – 2011)
• Al-Nour Party (2011)
• The Justice Party (Al-Adl – 2011)
• The Constitution Party (Al-Dostour – 2012)
• Republican People's Party (Al Shaab Al-Gomhouri – 2012)

Post-2013 popular coup/revolution (2013–present)

On July 3, 2013, president Mohamed Morsi, the leader of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) was removed from power in the aftermath of the June 30 popular coup/revolution, which later resulted in a new (2014) constitution banning parties based on religion, effectively dissolving the dominant FJP.^[12]

In June 2014, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi became Egypt's first president not affiliated with a political party.^[13][2] However, a number of pro-Sisi parties have since formed,^[3] and by 2018, 104 political parties were officially registered and approved by the Committee of Parties.^[4]

• Bread and Freedom Party (splintered from Social Popular Alliance – 2013, provisional)
• Homeland Defenders Party (Homat Watan – 2013)
• Sadat Democratic Party (2014)
• Nation's Future Party (Mostakbal Watan – 2014)
• Popular Current (Al-Tayyar al-Shaabi – 2014)
• June 30 Party (2015)

List of currently active parties

Egyptian politics are subject to unique circumstances and often defy simple classification in terms of the

• Politics of Egypt
• Lists of political parties

References

External links

• Vote Compass Egypt Political compass for voting in Egyptian elections
• Al Jazeera English – Explainer: Egypt's crowded political arena Political parties and alliances in Egypt
• قائمة الأحزاب السياسية في مصر political parties in Egypt Official Website (Arabic)
• امسک فلول Archived 10 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine List of remnants from Hosni Mubarak's regime seeking election (Arabic)