Freedom Party (Egypt) Explained

Freedom Party
Native Name:حزب الحرية
Leader1 Title:Chairman
Leader1 Name:Mamdouh Hassan
Leader2 Title:General Secretary
Leader2 Name:Moatz Hassan
Split:National Democratic Party
Merged:Conference Party[1]
Headquarters:Cairo
Ideology:Liberalism
Big tent
Country:Egypt
Seats1 Title:House of Representatives

The Freedom Party or Egyptian Freedom Party (Arabic: حزب الحرية|translit=Hizb al-Horreya) is an Egyptian political party. It was founded on 17 July 2011. The party consists of remnants of the formerly dominant National Democratic Party, which was dissolved following the 2011 Egyptian revolution. The party's chairman is Mamdouh Hassan, its secretary general was his brother Moatz Hassan.

Many former NDP MPs joined this party. In the elections for the People's Assembly from November 2011 through January 2012, the Freedom Party won 1.9% of the popular vote and five out of 498 elected seats. The party also gained votes from the Coptic Christian community by placing Copts on the top of their electoral lists.

Election results

!Election!Seats
2020 Egyptian parliamentary election[2] 7
2020 Egyptian Senate election1

References

  1. News: NDP holdovers, FJP look for allies ahead of Egypt's legislative polls. Ahram Online. 1 November 2012. 16 December 2013.
  2. Web site: 2020 Egypt election . english.ahram.org.

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