Socialist Popular Alliance Party
Socialist Popular Alliance Party حزب التحالف الشعبي الاشتراكي Hizb Al-Tahalof Al-Shaeby Al-Ishtiraky | |
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President | Abu Al-Izz Al-Hariri |
General Secretary | Abdel Ghafar Shokr[1] |
Founder | Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed |
Founded | 2011 |
Split from | National Progressive Unionist Party |
Headquarters | Cairo |
Ideology | Democratic socialism Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism Anti-Zionism |
Political position | Left-wing |
National affiliation | Civil Democratic Movement[2] |
Colours | Desert sand |
House of Representatives | 0 / 568 |
Website | |
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The Socialist People's Alliance Party (
Tagammu Party (the only formal leftist party under Hosni Mubarak's reign) who resigned, later joining the party after a split over the party's position on the November 2010 parliamentary elections.[3] The party has been officially recognized on 3 September 2011.[4]
One of the founding members of the party, Fathy Ghareeb, died by suffocation provoked by the
the November 2012 Tahrir square clashes.[5]
In November 2013, hundreds of members attempted to resign from the party over party elections as well as a lack of separation from the policies of the state; however, the resignations were rejected by party head Abdel Ghafar Shokr.[6] The former members created the Bread and Freedom Party in late November 2013.[7]
A 32-year-old member of the party named Shaimaa Sabagh was shot in the head and killed by police in Cairo on 24 January 2015.[8]
References
- ^ "Abdel Ghafar Shokr elected chairman of Social Popular Alliance Party", Daily News Egypt, 18 May 2013, retrieved 16 December 2013
- ^ "Eight liberal and leftist Egyptian parties to boycott 2018 presidential elections". Ahram Online. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ^ "Egypt's leftist front, will it survive?". Ahram Online. 12 May 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
- ^ "Five socialist parties unite to impact Egyptian politics". Ahram Online. 11 May 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ "Socialist Alliance holds slain protester's funeral in Egypt's Tahrir". Ahram Online. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
- ^ "Social Popular Alliance Party shaken by 304 resignations", Daily News Egypt, 9 November 2013, retrieved 16 December 2013
- ^ "New socialist party launched in Egypt". Ahram Online. 25 November 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
- ^ BBC. Egypt policeman jailed over death of activist Shaimaa al-Sabbagh
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