Justice Party حزب العدل Ḥizb el-Adl | |
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| Founded | 2011 (2011) |
| Headquarters | Garden City,Cairo |
| Ideology | Big tent[1] |
| Political position | Centre[2] |
| National affiliation | Civil Democratic Movement[3] Democratic Path Alliance[4] |
| Colours | Red,White andBlack |
| House of Representatives | 2 / 568 |
| Senate | 4 / 300 |
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TheJustice Party (Arabic:حزب العدل,romanized: Ḥizb el-Adl) is a political party inEgypt. It was founded after theEgyptian Revolution of 2011 by a group of people from different movements that led to the revolution including theApril 6 Youth Movement, theNational Association for Change andKefaya.[5]
After the2011 Egyptian revolution, a group of youth taking part in the revolution announced they would be founding their own party. In May 2011, the party was officially founded[6] after gathering 5,000 signatures from all across Egypt. Its foundation was celebrated with the first party conference being held inAl-Azhar Park.[7] It supportscentrism andsecularism.[6]
The founding committee for the Justice Party included democracy activists such asMostafa el-Naggar,Ahmed Shoukry, Abdel Monem Emam in addition to Hisham Akram and Mohamed Gabr. The party had a group of consultants which included Egyptian economistMona ElBaradei, sister of presidential candidateMohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian political scientistAmr el-Shobaky, as well asAbdelgelil Mostafa, the general coordinator ofEgyptian Movement for Change, also known as Kefaya and Egyptian poet and activistAbdul Rahman Yusuf, son of Islamic theologianYusuf al-Qaradawi.
The party fielded candidates for about a third of Egyptian parliamentary seats during the2011-2012 parliamentary elections that started in November 2011.[8]
The Justice Party welcomes people from different political ideologies on the political right and left, and described itself as a party of political programs rather than a certain political ideology.[8] Its policies focus on solving education, health and employment issues in Egypt as well as achieving the demands called for by theEgyptian revolution.
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