Umma Party (Egypt)
Umma Party Hizb Al-Umma حزب الأمة | |
|---|---|
| Chairman | Ahmed Al-Sabahi Khalil |
| Founded | June 25, 1983 |
| Headquarters | Cairo |
| Ideology | Socialism, Social Democracy, Islamic socialism, Islamism, Islamic democracy |
The Umma Party (Arabic: حزب الأمة, Hizb Al-Umma) is a small Egyptian political party with a total membership of around 185 members. The party platform presses for promoting the so-called 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.
Party principles
The party:[1]
- 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
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.
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