The Republican People's Party () is an Egyptian political party made up of former government ministers. It is currently headed by Former Chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, Hazem Omar. The party supported

Amr Moussa Amr Moussa (, , Amr Muhammad Moussa; born 3 October 1936) is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary General of the Arab League, Secretary-General of the Arab League, a 22-member forum representing Arab World, Arab states, from ...

in the

2012 Egyptian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Egypt in 2012, with the first round on 23 and 24 May 2012 and the second on 16 and 17 June. They were the first democratic presidential elections in Egyptian history. The Muslim Brotherhood declared early 18 J ...

. Hazem Omar denied that the party was composed of remnants (''feloul'') of the National Democratic Party, which was in power during the Mubarak era. It is currently the 2nd largest party in Egypt, with the party having 50 Representatives in the Egyptian House of Representatives and 17 Senators in the Egyptian Senate. Although the party is supportive of President

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has been serving as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014. After the 2011 Egyptian revolution and 201 ...

, they nominated party leader Hazem Omar to compete against Sisi in the 2023 Egyptian presidential election. Omar came in 2nd place with 4.5% of the vote. Nearly 2 million people voted for him in the elections.

Electoral history

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