Umma Party (Egypt)
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Umma Party
Hizb Al-Umma حزب الأمة |
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| Chairman | Ahmed Al-Sabahi Khalil |
| Founded | 25 June 1983 |
| Headquarters | Cairo |
| Ideology | Islamic socialism, Islamism |
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The Umma Party (Arabic: حزب الأمة, Hizb Al-Umma) is a small Egyptian political party.
The party was established in 1983. It was the first party accepted by the Political Party Affairs Committee since the 1950s.
The party platform presses for promoting socialist democracy and adopting the Islamic sharia as the main source of legislation. The party expresses full support to efforts to establish peace with Israel. The Party nominated its head, Ahmed Al-Sabahi, to run for Egypt's first contested presidential elections. The Party fielded one candidate in the 2000 legislative polls.
The party:
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