Socialist Popular Alliance Party حزب التحالف الشعبي الاشتراكي Hizb Al-Tahalof Al-Shaeby Al-Ishtiraky | |
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| President | Abu Al-Izz Al-Hariri |
| General Secretary | Abdel Ghafar Shokr[1] |
| Founder | Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed |
| Founded | 2011; 14 years ago (2011) |
| Split from | National Progressive Unionist Party |
| Headquarters | Cairo |
| Ideology | Democratic socialism Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism Anti-Zionism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Civil Democratic Movement[2] |
| Colours | Desert sand |
| House of Representatives | 0 / 568 |
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TheSocialist People's Alliance Party (Arabic:حزب التحالف الشعبي الإشتراكيHizb Al-Tahalof Al-Shaeby Al-Ishtiraky,SPAP) is aleftist party inEgypt formed shortly after theEgyptian Revolution of 2011. Its membership comprises many leftist organisations, mainly former members of theTagammu Party (the only formal leftist party underHosni Mubarak's reign) who resigned, later joining the party after a split over the party's position on the November 2010 parliamentary elections.[3] The party has been officially recognized on 3 September 2011.[4]
One of the founding members of the party, Fathy Ghareeb, died by suffocation provoked by thetear gas fired by the Central Security Forces (CSF) duringthe November 2012 Tahrir square clashes.[5]
In November 2013, hundreds of members attempted to resign from the party over party elections as well as a lack of separation from the policies of the state; however, the resignations were rejected by party head Abdel Ghafar Shokr.[6] The former members created theBread and Freedom Party in late November 2013.[7]
A 32-year-old member of the party namedShaimaa al-Sabbagh was shot in the head and killed by police in Cairo on 24 January 2015.[8]
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