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The Democratic Front Party was an Egyptian
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...
. The party merged with the
Free Egyptians Party The Free Egyptians Party ( ) is an Egyptian liberal party, founded after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. It supports the principles of a liberal, democratic, and secular political order in Egypt. The Free Egyptians Party was the largest party i ...
in December 2013.


Foundation and profile

The party was founded in 2007 by Ahmed Diab and Yehia Al Gamal. The party adopted liberal ideologies. It was a full member of both the
Liberal International Liberal International (LI) is a worldwide organization of liberalism, liberal political parties. The political international was founded in Oxford in 1947 and has become the pre-eminent network for liberal and progressive democratic parties aim ...
and the Alliance of Democrats. Founder Osama Al Ghazali was the chairman of the party. His deputy was the writer Sakina Fuad. Mohamed Mansour and Ibrahim Nawar were secretaries-general. Since March 2011 the Democratic Front Party has participated in the Cabinet of Egypt ( Essam Sharaf). Before his death, writer Osama Anwar Okasha was also an executive member of the party. Its slogan was "Councilor Dr. Ahmed Diab is a Democratic Front Party Leader and Coming President of Egypt."


See also

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Liberalism in Egypt Liberalism in Egypt or Egyptian liberalism is a political ideology that traces its beginnings to the 19th century. History Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (also spelt Tahtawy; 1801–1873) was an Egyptians, Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptolog ...
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List of political parties in Egypt Egypt has had differing multi-party systems since independence, with a hiatus between 1953 and 1977, after which the current party law was enacted. Nevertheless, in practice the National Democratic Party (Egypt), National Democratic Party was t ...
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Politics of Egypt The politics of Egypt takes place within the framework of a republic, republican semi-presidential system of government. The current political system was established following the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, 2013 Egyptian military coup d'état, an ...


References


External links


democraticfront.org
party's official website (in
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2007 establishments in Egypt 2013 disestablishments in Egypt Political parties established in 2007 Political parties disestablished in 2013 Liberal parties in Egypt Defunct political parties in Egypt {{Egypt-party-stub