El-Ghad Party

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{{more citations needed|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox political party | name = el-Ghad Party | native_name = Hizb el-Ghad حزب الغد | logo = 145px | caption = logo until 2011 | colorcode = {{party color|El-Ghad Party}} | leader = Ayman Nour (2004–2011 Moussa Mostafa Moussa (2011–present) | chairperson = Moussa Mostafa Moussa | founders = Ayman Nour and Wael Nawara | slogan = Hand in Hand, we build tomorrow | flag = File:Flag orange 3x2.svg | founded = 2001 | headquarters = Cairo | newspaper = ''El-Ghad'' | ideology = {{ubl| |Secularism |Liberalism |Reformism }} | position = Centre | national = Egyptian Front<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 September 2015 |title="الغد" يدفع بـ 8 مرشحين على قائمة "الجبهة المصرية" |trans-title="Al-Ghad" nominates 8 candidates on the "Egyptian Front" list |url=http://www.el-balad.com/1698957 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912231907/http://www.el-balad.com/1698957 |archive-date=12 September 2015 |access-date=9 September 2015 |language=ar |agency=El Balad}}</ref> National Unified List for Egypt (since 2020) | colors = {{Color box|#f88017}} Orange {{small|(Historically)}} | native_name_lang = ar | website = {{URL|www.elghad.com}} | country = Egypt | seats1_title = House of Representatives | seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|568|{{party color|El-Ghad Party}}}} }}

The '''el-Ghad Party''' ({{langx|ar|حزب الغد}} ''{{Transliteration|ar|Ḥizb el-Ghad}}'', {{IPA|arz|ˈħezb elˈɣæd|IPA}}; "'''The Tomorrow Party'''") is a 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.

==Background== Ayman Nour left the New Wafd Party in 2001. He was named the first secretary of the party in October that year.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Stacher |first=Joshua |date=2004 |title=Parties over: The demise of Egypt's opposition parties |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/135301904042000268222 |journal=British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies |volume=31 |issue=2 |page=231 |doi=10.1080/135301904042000268222 |s2cid=145021477|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The party was legalized in 2004. After facing president Hosni Mubarak in the 2005 Egyptian presidential election, Nour was sentenced to five years in jail on forgery charges.<ref name=Ahram/> thumb|Members of the el-Ghad party and Ayman Nour's Supporters holding the party's flag protesting Ayman Nour's trial and imprisonment, 2006.|left|184x184px In 2005, just before Nour being sentenced, the El-Ghad party split in two factions. One was headed by Moussa Moustafa Moussa, the other by Nour's (now former) wife Gameela Ismail.<ref name="Ahram" /> Legal battle ensued between both factions, both claiming legitimacy and simultaneously using the party name and insignia. The final court ruling in May 2011 was in favor of Moussa.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-09-05 |title="شئون الأحزاب" ترفض قبول تأسيس حزب الغد الجديد |trans-title=Party Affairs refuses to accept the establishment of the new Tomorrow Party |url=https://www.youm7.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217010416/http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=486690 |archive-date=2013-12-17 |access-date=2011-09-28 |website=Youm7 |language=ar}}</ref> Ayman Nour hence filed for a new party, Ghad El-Thawra Party or "Revolution's Tomorrow Party", which was approved on 9 October 2011.<ref name="Ahram" />

The removal of Nour from the party leadership by Moussa, and the latter's election to the Egyptian Upper House, have been seen as compliance with the Hosni Mubarak regime.<ref name=Ahram/>

== History == The official El-Ghad Party, headed by Moussa Moustafa Moussa, ran in the 2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election as an independent list. The split faction Ghad El-Thawra Party, headed by Ayman Nour, was part of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party-led Democratic Alliance for Egypt.<ref name="Ahram">{{cite web |date=3 December 2011 |title=Ghad Al-Thawra Party |url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/26694.aspx |access-date=16 December 2013 |website=Al Ahram}}</ref>

The party joined the Egyptian Front in August 2014.<ref>{{cite web |date=18 August 2014 |title=Egyptian Front Coalition: the widest political alliance facing Islamists |url=http://thecairopost.com/news/122232/inside_egypt/egyptian-front-coalition-the-widest-political-alliance-facing-islamists |access-date=15 January 2026|website=Cairo Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819090239/http://thecairopost.com/news/122232/inside_egypt/egyptian-front-coalition-the-widest-political-alliance-facing-islamists|archive-date=19 August 2014}}</ref>

It contested the 2020 Egyptian Senate election as part of the National Unified List for Egypt.<ref>{{cite web |date=13 July 2020 |title=Homeland Defenders Party considers Mostaqbal Watan alliance return in Senate elections |url=https://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2020/07/13/homeland-defenders-party-considers-mostaqbal-watan-alliance-return-in-senate-elections/ |access-date=30 January 2026|website=Daily News Egypt}}</ref>

== Platform == The party platform calls for: * Political and economic reform. * Paying a special care for the handicapped. * Combating drug addiction. * Solving the water crisis.

==Name confusion== Ayman Nour has been tightly associated with both the El-Ghad name and party, even being accused of internal monopoly by other party members.<ref name=Ahram/> Since both Nour and Moussa factions were using (and still are) the same name and insignia (ex: Ghad El-Thawra website<ref>{{cite web|title=aymannour.net|url=http://aymannour.net/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225045010/http://www.aymannour.net/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 25, 2011}}</ref>), it was often difficult to tell them apart. For instance, Liberal International listed El-Ghad, specifying its leader as Ayman Nour, as an observer member.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Datasheet on the Liberal International's website |url=http://liberal-international.org/editorial.asp?ia_id=1895 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522104235/http://liberal-international.org/editorial.asp?ia_id=1895 |archive-date=2011-05-22}}</ref> Many poll and media outlets used the term "El-Ghad" without specifying which party or faction they are referring to,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/26/egypt-political-poll-muslim-brotherhood-influence-troubles-for-west.html|title=Egypt's Simmering Rage|work=The Daily Beast|date=26 July 2011|access-date=16 December 2013}}</ref> although they often meant the Ayman Nour Ghad El-Thawra faction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dedi.org.eg/wp-content/uploads/Voter-poll-survey.pdf|title=2nd National Voter Survey in Egypt|publisher=Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute (DEDI)|access-date=October 13, 2011|archive-date=March 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303024616/http://dedi.org.eg/wp-content/uploads/Voter-poll-survey.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dedi.org.eg/wp-content/uploads/3rd-Poll-Press-Release.pdf|title=3rd National Voter Survey in Egypt|publisher=Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute (DEDI)|access-date=16 December 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801064745/http://dedi.org.eg/wp-content/uploads/3rd-Poll-Press-Release.pdf|archive-date=1 August 2013}}</ref>

== See also == * Liberalism in Egypt * Ghad El-Thawra Party

==References== <references/>

==External links== * [http://www.elghad.com/ El-Ghad newspaper] * [http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/12/07/egypt12161.htm Human Rights watch: Ayman Nur Trial Badly Flawed; Judge Jails Opposition Leader, Others, Without Explanation]

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