The Democratic Front Party was an Egyptian

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. The party merged with the

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in December 2013.

Foundation and profile

The party was founded in 2007 by Ahmed Diab and

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. The party adopted

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ideologies. It was a full member of both the

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and the Alliance of Democrats Founder Al Ghazali was the chairman of the party. His deputy was the writer

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. Mohamed Mansour and Ibrahim Nawar were secretary-generals. Since March 2011 the Democratic Front Party has participated in the

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(

Essam Sharaf Essam Abdel-Aziz Sharaf ( ar, عصام عبد العزيز شرف, ; born 1952) is an Egyptian academic who was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 3 March 2011 to 7 December 2011. He served as Minister of Transportation from 2004 to 2005. Early li ...

). Before his death, writer

Osama Anwar Okasha Osama Anwar Okasha ( ar, أسامة أنور عكاشة, 27 July 1941 – 28 May 2010) was an Egyptian screenwriter and journalist, who wrote weekly for El-Ahram newspaper. He is famous for writing some of the most popular series on Egyptian televi ...

was also an executive member of the party. Its slogan was ''Concilor Dr. Ahmed Diab is a Democratic Front Party Leader and Coming President of Egypt''.

References

External links

democraticfront.org
party's official website (in

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Foundation and profile

See also

References

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