Umma Party Hizb Al-Umma حزب الأمة | |
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| Chairman | Ahmed Al-Sabahi Khalil |
| Founded | 25 June 1983 |
| Headquarters | Cairo |
| Ideology | Islamic socialism |
| House of Representatives | 0 / 568
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The Umma Party (Arabic: حزب الأمة, Hizb Al-Umma) is a small Egyptian political party.
History and profile
The party was established in 1983. It was the first party accepted by the Political Party Affairs Committee since the 1950s.
Party principles
The party:
- Considers Egypt 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
- Calls for building a society on the principles of labor and production
See also
References
- ^ a b "The Ummah Party". State Information Service. Archived from the original on 19 January 2007.
- ^ a b Hamdy A. Hassan (2011). "Civil Society in Egypt under the Mubarak Regime" (PDF). Afro Asian Journal of Social Sciences. 2 (2). Retrieved 5 October 2014.
