Democratic Alliance for Egypt

The Democratic Alliance for Egypt (Arabic التحالف الديمقراطي من أجل مصر ) was a coalition of political parties in Egypt, which was founded as a result of the upheavals of 2011. The dominant party in the group was the Islamist Freedom and Justice Party of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

History

The alliance was originally constituted in June 2011 from 28 parties, including the party's liberal Egypt, the liberal New Wafd Party, the leftist National Progressive Unionist Party ( Tadschammu ), the Salafist oriented party of light and centrist Party of Justice.

In the meantime, there was the alliance of more than 40 parties, including the Freedom and Justice Party of the Muslim Brotherhood, New Wafd Party, the liberal al - Ghad Party, the nationalist Arab Democratic Nasserist Party, the Nasserist Party of dignity and several smaller parties included. The parties differed in their internal political orientation, but were united in support of a more nationalistic, less pro-Western foreign policy.

Due to internal disputes occurred from end of July 2011 increased to withdrawals from the Democratic Alliance. First, the Democratic Front Party and the Tadschammu Party split from the alliance. The Tadschammu justified this step with the individual actions of the Salafist parties on 29 July 2011, which was originally planned as a " Friday the National Front ". Front Party and Tadschammu joined the left -aligned Egyptian block, which existed at the time of the election of three parties. Due to disagreements about a list constellations parted in the autumn, the party of the light and the Wafd Party of the Alliance. The party of the light founded in consequence its own electoral alliance, the Islamist bloc.

Coalition parties

The Democratic Alliance was the last of eleven political parties of different political currents:

  • Freedom and Justice Party
  • Party of dignity
  • Morning Party of the Revolution
  • Islamic Labour Party
  • Party of reform and rebirth
  • Civilization Party
  • Egyptian Reform Party
  • The democratic party generation
  • Egyptian Arab Socialist Party
  • Liberal Party
  • Freedom and Development Party

In the parliamentary elections of 2011 and 2012, the Democratic Alliance for Egypt was in October 2011, only eleven parties, including the Freedom and Justice Party, the al - Ghad Party, the Labour Party, the Ahrar Party and the Party of dignity. With these parties, the Alliance stepped up to the parliamentary elections on 28 November 2011.

The Democratic Alliance won 10,138,134 of a total of 27,065,135 valid votes, or 37.5 % of the total votes. They thus received 127 seats of a total of 332 in the Egyptian parliament. The 127 seats are divided among the members of the alliance as follows:

  • Freedom and Justice Party: 116 seats
  • Party of dignity: 6 seats
  • Morning Party of the Revolution: 2 seats
  • Civilization Party: 2 seats
  • Islamic Labour Party: 1 seat

In addition, independent candidates won the Freedom and Justice Party 101 seats of a total of 167, which were intended for unabgängige candidates. This won the Democratic Alliance 228 seats out of a total of 498 ( 45.8 %) in the Egyptian People's Assembly and became the strongest political force in parliament.

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