The Freedom Party ( ar, حزب الحرية, translit=Hizb al-Horreya) is an Egyptian

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

. It was founded on 17 July 2011. The party consists of remnants of the formerly dominant National Democratic Party, which was dissolved following the

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. The party's chairman is

Mamdouh Hassan Mamdouh (also spelled Mamduh or Memduh, ar, ممدوح) is a masculine given name and also, a surname. People with the name include: Given name *Mamdouh Abbas, Egyptian businessman, twice Zamalek chairman *Mamdouh Bahri (born 1957), jazz guitaris ...

, its secretary general was his brother Moatz Hassan. Many former NDP MPs joined this party. In the

elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

for the People's Assembly from November 2011 through January 2012, the Freedom Party won 1.9% of the popular vote and five out of 498 elected seats. The party also gained votes from the Coptic Christian community by placing

Copts Copts ( cop, ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ; ar, الْقِبْط ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt and Sudan since antiquity. Most ethnic Copts are ...

on the top of their electoral lists.

References

External links

Official website
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