The Reawakening of Egypt ( ar-at, صحوة مصر, Sahwet Misr), also translated Egypt's Renaissance, is an

electoral alliance An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political party, political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

that was established by

Abdelgelil Mostafa Dr. Abdelgelil Mostafa is an Egyptian cardiologist and a political activist. Abdelgelil Mostafa studied medicine at the Cairo University, and received his doctoral degree in 1966. Before the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Dr. Abelgelil Mostafa was the ...

to contest 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 ...

. It had candidates in the race, but later withdrew them.

Electoral lists

The alliance initially submitted electoral lists for all of the four constituencies. The alliance however refused to repeat costly medical examinations even for candidates already examined in February 2015, and went to the Administrative Court requesting free medical examination and a reopening of the candidate application. The court however upheld the requirement. After an appeal was turned down by Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court, the alliance withdrew all of its lists, forestalling their inevitable rejection by the

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Composition

Mostafa aimed to create electoral lists excluding the

Muslim Brotherhood The Society of the Muslim Brothers ( ar, جماعة الإخوان المسلمين'' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( ', is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan ...

and former members of the National Democratic Party. 120 candidates will be selected to run. The

25-30 Alliance The 25-30 Alliance is an alliance of independents created to run in the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2015, 2015 Egyptian parliamentary election of 17 October to 2 December 2015. Creation The name of the alliance refers to the revolution that ...

has stated that it is not part of the alliance. The parties affiliated with the

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have joined the Reawakening of Egypt. The Dignity Party withdrew from the alliance after several Dignity Party candidates were not selected for the electoral lists.

Affiliated parties and coalitions

* National Bloc *

Socialist Party of Egypt The Egyptian Socialist Party (''El-Hizb El-Ishtiraki El-Masri'') is a political party in Egypt which was founded by some Egyptian socialists after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. History and profile The party was founded on 18 June 2011 at a confe ...

Egyptian Communist Party The Egyptian Communist Party ( ar, الحزب الشيوعي المصري) (ECP) is a communist party in Egypt. History and profile The modern Egyptian Communist Party was formed in 1975 by a number of members of the former Egyptian Communist Pa ...

Civil Democratic Current The Civil Democratic Current (also called the Democratic Alliance for Civil Forces and the Democratic Civilian Alliance) is an alliance of political parties that would have run for the 2015 Egyptian parliamentary election, but it withdrew. The al ...

*Egyptian Democratic *

Nasserist Party The Arab Democratic Nasserist Party ( ar, الحزب العربي الديمقراطي الناصري, al-Hizb al-'Arabi al-Dimuqrati al-Nasseri) is a Nasserist political party in Egypt, styling itself as the ideological successor of the old Arab ...

Future of Egypt Party The future is the time after the past and present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently ...

National Progressive Unionist Party The National Progressive Unionist Party ( ar-at, حزب التجمع الوطني التقدمي الوحدوي, Ḥizb al-Tagammu' al-Watani al-Taqadomi al-Wahdawi, commonly referred to as Tagammu) is a socialist political party in Egypt. Origi ...

(Tagammu) *

Conference Party The Conference Party ( ar, حزب المؤتمر المصري), or Congress Party, is a secularist political party in Egypt. It was created by the merger of five liberal and leftist parties, as well as remnants of the former NDP-regime. The Con ...

Socialist Popular Alliance Party The Socialist People's Alliance Party ( ar, حزب التحالف الشعبي الإشتراكي ''Hizb Al-Tahalof Al-Shaeby Al-Ishtiraky'', SPAP) is a leftist party in Egypt formed shortly after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Its membership ...

* Justice Party *

Reform and Renaissance Party The Reform and Renaissance Party ( ar-at, حزب الإصلاح والنهضة, al-Eslah we al-Nahda) is an Islamist political party in Egypt. History and profile The party was established on 18 July 2011. Hesham Mustafa Abdel Aziz is the lead ...

References

{{Egyptian political parties Political party alliances in Egypt