The Tomorrow Party (Arabic:حزب الغد Hizb el-Ghad) is an active political party in Egypt that was granted license in October 2004. El-Ghad is a centrist liberal secular political party pressing for widening the scope of political participation and for a peaceful rotation of power.
The party is working with some representation the lower house of Parliament, the People’s Assembly. The party currently does not hold any seats in the Upper House, the Shura Council.
At the first party convention held in October 2004, Ayman Nour, a Member of Parliament and a practising lawyer, was elected as Party Chairman. The party was founded by former members of the New Wafd Party. The party was created to represent a liberal democratic perspective, with a strong interest in human rights issues. Nour used the party as a platform to call for constitutional reform, limiting the president's powers and opening presidential elections to multiple candidates. Ayman Nour is estimated to have received 12% of the vote at the presidential election of 2005. In the parliamentary elections of that year, the party won only one seat.
Platform
The party platform calls for:- Political and economic reform.
- Paying a special care for the handicapped.
- Combating drug addiction.
- Solving the water crisis.
See also
- Liberalism
- Contributions to liberal theory
- Liberalism worldwide
- List of liberal parties
- Liberal democracy
- Liberalism in Egypt
External links
- Tomorrow Party
- Human Rights watch: Ayman Nur Trial Badly Flawed; Judge Jails Opposition Leader, Others, Without Explanation
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