El-Ghad Party
El-Ghad Party Hizb el-Ghad حزب الغد | |
|---|---|
| Chairman | Dr. Ayman Nour |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Cairo |
| Newspaper | AlGhad Newspaper - Weekly |
| Ideology | Liberalism, Liberal Democracy |
| Colors | Orange |
| Website | |
| www.elghad.org | |
The el-Ghad Party (Arabic:حزب الغد Hizb el-Ghad, "The Tomorrow Party") is an active political party in Egypt that was granted license in October 2004. El-Ghad is a centrist liberal secular political party pressing for widening the scope of political participation and for a peaceful rotation of power.
The party is working with some representation in the lower house of Parliament, the People’s Assembly. The party currently does not hold any seats in the upper house, the Shura Council.
Background
At the first party convention held in October 2004, Ayman Nour, a Member of Parliament and a practising lawyer, was elected as Party Chairman. The party was founded by former members of the New Wafd Party. The party was created to represent a liberal democratic perspective, with a strong interest in human rights issues. Nour used the party as a platform to call for constitutional reform, limiting the president's powers and opening presidential elections to multiple candidates. Ayman Nour is estimated to have received 12% of the vote at the presidential election of 2005. In the parliamentary elections of that year, the party won only one seat.
Platform
The party platform calls for:
- Political and economic reform.
- Paying a special care for the handicapped.
- Combating drug addiction.
- Solving the water crisis.
See also
- Liberalism
- Contributions to liberal theory
- Liberalism worldwide
- List of liberal parties
- Liberal democracy
- Liberalism in Egypt
- Asmaa Mahfouz
- Kefaya
- Saad Eddin Ibrahim
- Ayman Nour - an Egyptian opposition leader, head of the Tomorrow Party
- Nonviolent resistance
- Hosni Mubarak
- Kefaya
- 2011 Egyptian protests
- April 6 Youth Movement
- National Association for Change
- Wafd Party
- New Wafd Party
External links
- Tomorrow Party
- Human Rights watch: Ayman Nur Trial Badly Flawed; Judge Jails Opposition Leader, Others, Without Explanation
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