The 25-30 Alliance is an alliance of independents created to run in the

2015 Egyptian parliamentary election Egyptian parliamentary elections to the House of Representatives were held in two phases, from 17 October to 2 December 2015. The elected parliament will be entrusted with the task of reviewing the laws that were passed while a parliament was not ...

of 17 October to 2 December 2015.

Creation

The name of the alliance refers to the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak on 25 January 2011 and the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi on 30 June 2013. In July 2014, members of the April 6 Youth Movement and

Tamarod Tamarod ( ar, تـمـرد, tamarrud, "rebellion") was an Egyptian grassroots movement that was founded to register opposition to President Mohamed Morsi and force him to call early presidential elections. The goal was to collect 15 million sig ...

stated that they would join the alliance. The Free Egyptians Party stated that it might join the alliance. The alliance stated in March 2015 that it was not part of the Reawakening of Egypt list. Abdel-Hakim Abdel Nasser, son of former Egyptian president

Gamal Abdel Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, . (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and introduced far-re ...

, was one of the founders of the alliance.

Structure

, the 25-30 Alliance was led by

Haitham El-Hariri Haytham or Haitham (Arabic: هيثم, Hebrew language, Hebrew: הייתם, Syriac language, Syriac/Assyrian-Aramaic: ܗܝܬܡ ''pronounced: hay-tham'') is a male Semitic languages, Semitic given name with Arabic origins meaning "young eagle" or "yo ...

Policies and strategy

The alliance included 25% quotas for women and youth in its

electoral list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...

s. The electoral strategy of the members of the alliance was to run for individual seats rather than as a formal group.

2015 Parliament

The 25-30 Alliance obtained 14 seats in the

. On 14 February 2019, 25-30 Alliance member of parliament Ahmed Tantawi was one of the 16 members who voted against the parliamentary motion for amending the Egyptian constitution that led to the

2019 Egyptian constitutional referendum A constitutional referendum was held in Egypt between 20 and 22 April 2019, The main proposed amendments were re-establishing the presidential term to six years, from four previously, and removing the limit of two terms on the President, thereby ...

in April 2019. The motion was supported by 485 members.

References

2014 establishments in Egypt Political opposition organizations Political party alliances in Egypt Politics of Egypt Political parties established in 2014 {{Egypt-party-stub