Misr El-Fatah (Young Egypt) Party

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party_name = Young Egypt Party "Hizb Misr El-Fatah"
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chairman = Mr.Abdul Hakim Abdul Majid Khalil
foundation = October 12, 1989
headquarters = Cairo
ideology = Socialism, Liberal Democracy
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The Misr El-Fatah (Young Egypt) Party (Arabic: "Hizb Misr El-Fatah") is a small Egyptian political party, with the membership of some 225 members.

Platform

The Party platform calls for:

* Establishing a parliamentary/presidential ruling system.
* Enhancing the Egyptian-Arab ties.
* Achieving integration with African countries.
* Adopting non-alignment policies.
* Establishing the so-called socialist, Islamic economic system and boosting the role of the private sector.

The Party & legislative electionsThe Party fielded seven candidates to run for the 2000 legislative elections.

History

The party was formed October 1933 by its leader Ahmed Husayn. During its hayday in the 1930s the fascist Young Egypt had a youth movement name the "Green Shirts" who had some violent confrontations with the Wafd parties "blue shirts" One member even tried to assassinate Mustafa el-Nahas Pasha in November 1937. Under government pressure, the Green shirts were disbanded in 1938. The group was renamed the Nationalist Islamic Party in 1940, when it took on a more religious, as well as anti-British tone. After the war it was renamed yet again, now the Socialist Party of Egypt. The groups one electoral success came when it sent Ibrahim Shukri, its vice-president to parliament in 1951. However the military government that came to power in the Revolution of 1952 disbanded it, and all other parties, in 1953.

Ibriham Shukri, formed a group, the Socialist Labor Party in 1978, despite its name it took much of the populistic and nationalistic ideology of Young Egypt. Its organ was "Al-Sha'ab" (The People).

Another Young Egypt group, this one keeping the original name, was founded in 1990. It is led by Abdallah Rushdi.

References

*Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa Ed. Frank Tachau; Greenwood Press: Westport Connecticut, 1994
* [http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/eat/egypt/fyoungegypt1933.htm Young Egypt green shirts & British impeire]
* [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/395/eg8.htm Misr Al-Fatah and free officers movement]
* [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/748/chrncls.htm Al-Ahram weekly article "Color of shirts in Egypt"]
* [http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Total/islamfascist.htm Alleged relation with Nazi Germany]
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=53F6B0E7-A87D-456B-BFE9-918491CCF45E Pro-Axis Young Egypt Party and Abdel Naser as a member]
* [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DL04Ak01.html "Young Egypt" (Misr al-Fatah) movement members later presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar El-Sadat]
* [http://bsimmons.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/islamic-terrorism-linked-to-nazi-fascists/ Young Egypt and terrorism]
* [http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-4049.html Young Egypt and Wafd party]
* [http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Politics/Parties/Parties/041102000000000009.htm Misr El-Fatah (Young Egypt) New Party]