{{short description|Political party in Egypt}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox political party | name = Justice Party | native_name = حزب العدل<br />Ḥizb el-Adl | native_name_lang = ar | logo = Gerechtigkeitspartei Logo.svg | logo_size = 210px | headquarters = [[Garden City (Cairo)|Garden City]], [[Cairo]] | foundation = {{start date|2011}} | merged = | president = [[Abdel-Moneim Imam]] | chairperson = Youssef Hamada Youssef | first_secretary = Omar Azziz | ideology = [[Big tent]]<ref name="Carnegie">{{Citation|title=Al-Adl|work=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|url=http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/pages/articleDetails.aspx?aid=123|date=12 November 2011|access-date=18 December 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429045554/http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/pages/articleDetails.aspx?aid=123|archive-date=29 April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> | position = [[Centrism|Centre]]<ref>{{Citation|title=Centrist Adl Party backs Sabahi for Egypt president|publisher=Ahram Online|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/100026/Egypt/Politics-/Centrist-Adl-Party-backs-Sabahi-for-Egypt-presiden.aspx|date=28 April 2014|access-date=18 December 2025}}</ref> | national = [[Civil Democratic Movement (2017)|Civil Democratic Movement]]<ref name=ao30jan>{{Cite news|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/1187/289073/Egypt/-Presidential-Elections--/Eight-liberal-and-leftist-Egyptian-parties-to-boyc.aspx|title=Eight liberal and leftist Egyptian parties to boycott 2018 presidential elections|agency=Ahram Online|date=30 January 2018|access-date=18 December 2025}}</ref><br/>Democratic Path Alliance<ref name=am29june>{{Cite news|url=https://manassa.news/en/news/25279|title=Nation's Future leads unified list as parties scramble for Senate seats|author=Safaa Essam Eddin|agency=Al Manassa|date=29 June 2025|access-date=18 December 2025}}</ref><br/>[[National Unified List for Egypt]] (since 2020)<ref name="ao23oct">{{cite web|url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/555362.aspxx|title=Contenders gear up |publisher=Ahram Online|date=23 October 2025|access-date=18 December 2025|author=Gamal Essam El-Din}}</ref> | international = [[Liberal International]] | colours = [[Red]], [[White]] and [[Black]] | seats1_title = [[House of Representatives (Egypt)|House of Representatives]] | seats1 = {{Composition bar|11|596|{{party color|Justice Party (Egypt)}}}} | seats2_title = [[Senate (Egypt)|Senate]] | seats2 = {{Composition bar|4|300|{{party color|Justice Party (Egypt)}}}} | website = {{url|https://eladlparty.com/}} | colorcode = {{party color|Justice Party (Egypt)}} | country = Egypt }}
The '''Justice Party''' ({{langx|ar|حزب العدل|Ḥizb el-Adl}}) is a political party in [[Egypt]]. It was founded after the [[Egyptian Revolution of 2011]] by a group of people from different movements that led to the revolution including the [[April 6 Youth Movement]], the [[National Association for Change]] and [[Kefaya]].<ref>{{cite news|title=حزب العدل يحتفل بإعلان تأسيسه.. بعد تخطيه حاجز الـ5000 توكيل|trans-title=El Adl Party celebrates its founding after gathering member signatures|url=http://www.shorouknews.com/contentData.aspx?id=%20449102|work=Shorouk News|access-date=18 December 2025|lang=ar|archive-date=9 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009130045/http://www.shorouknews.com/contentData.aspx?id=%20449102}}</ref>
== History == After the [[2011 Egyptian revolution]], a group of youth taking part in the revolution announced they would be founding their own party. In May 2011, the party was officially founded<ref name=cic>{{cite web|title=A Partial Guide to the Egyptian Political Parties|url=http://connectedincairo.com/2011/11/15/a-partial-guide-to-the-egyptian-political-parties/|work=Connected in Cairo|access-date=18 December 2025|date=15 November 2011}}</ref> after gathering 5,000 signatures from all across Egypt. Its foundation was celebrated with the first party conference being held in [[Al-Azhar Park]].<ref>{{cite news|title=حزب "العدل" يعقد مؤتمره التأسيسى الأول بحديقة الأزهر بارك|trans-title=El Adly Party founding conference held in Al Azhar Park|url=http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=406772&SecID=97&IssueID=0|work=Youm7|access-date=18 December 2025|lang=ar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006155008/http://www.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=406772&SecID=97&IssueID=0|archive-date=6 October 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> It supports [[centrism]] and [[secularism]].<ref name=cic/>
The founding committee for the Justice Party included democracy activists such as [[Mostafa el-Naggar]], [http://shoukry.org Ahmed Shoukry], [[Abdel-Moneim Imam]] in addition to Hisham Akram and Mohamed Gabr. The party had a group of consultants which included Egyptian economist [[Mona ElBaradei]], sister of presidential candidate [[Mohamed ElBaradei]], Egyptian political scientist [[:arz:عمرو الشوبكى|Amr el-Shobaky]], as well as [[Abdelgelil Mostafa]], the general coordinator of [[Egyptian Movement for Change]], also known as Kefaya, and Egyptian poet and activist [[Abdul Rahman Yusuf]], son of Islamic theologian [[Yusuf al-Qaradawi]].
The party fielded candidates for about a third of Egyptian parliamentary seats during the [[2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election|2011-2012 parliamentary elections]] that started in November 2011.<ref name="Ahram">{{cite news|title=العدل أول حزب وسط يستند إلي قاعدة من شباب الثورة|trans-title=ElAdl Party, the first party to include youth of the revolution|url=http://www.ahram.org.eg/Al-Mashhad-Al-Syiassy/News/76522.aspx|access-date=18 December 2025|newspaper=Al Ahram|date=6 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231101214/http://www.ahram.org.eg/Al-Mashhad-Al-Syiassy/News/76522.aspx|archive-date=31 December 2012|url-status=dead|lang=ar}}</ref>
The party joined the [[Civil Democratic Movement (2017)|Civil Democratic Movement]] in 2017.<ref name=ao30jan/>
The Justice Party joined the [[National Unified List for Egypt]] ahead of the [[2020 Egyptian parliamentary election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/379989/Egypt/0/Egypts-Mostaqbal-Watan-Party-leads-coalition-to-ru.aspx|title=Egypt's Mostaqbal Watan Party leads coalition to run in parliamentary elections |publisher=Ahram Online|date=14 September 2020|access-date=14 January 2026|author=Gamal Essam El-Din}}</ref>
The Justice Party became part of the Democratic Path Alliance (DPA), which it established in May 2025 alongside the [[Egyptian Social Democratic Party]] and the [[Reform and Development Party (Egypt)|Reform and Development Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://manassa.news/en/news/24450|title=Egypt parliament approves election law changes, critics warn of political stagnation|author1=Safaa Essam Eddin|publisher=Al Manassa|date=25 May 2025|access-date=18 December 2025}}</ref> The DPA began negotiating joining the [[National Unified List for Egypt]] ahead of the [[2025 Egyptian Senate election]],<ref name=am29june/> which was completed by October, ahead of the [[2025 Egyptian parliamentary election]].<ref name="ao23oct">{{cite web|url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/555362.aspxx|title=Contenders gear up |publisher=Ahram Online|date=23 October 2025|access-date=18 December 2025|author=Gamal Essam El-Din}}</ref> The party gained 11 seats in the election.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1201/560462/AlAhram-Weekly/Egypt/New-parliament-takes-its-seats.aspx|title=New parliament takes its seats|publisher=Ahram Online|date=14 January 2026|access-date=15 January 2026|author=Gamal Essam El-Din}}</ref>
== Political ideology == The Justice Party welcomes people from different political ideologies on the political right and left, and described itself as a party of political programs rather than a certain political ideology.<ref name="Ahram"/>
==Electoral history==
===People's Assembly elections===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center !Election !Seats !+/– |- |[[2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election|2011/2012]] |{{Composition bar|1|596|{{party color|Justice Party (Egypt)}}}} |{{increase}} 1 |}
===House of Representatives elections=== {| class=wikitable style=text-align:center !Election !Seats !+/– |- |- |[[2015 Egyptian parliamentary election|2015]] |{{Composition bar|0|596|{{party color|Justice Party (Egypt)}}}} |n/a |- |[[2020 Egyptian parliamentary election|2020]] |{{Composition bar|2|596|{{party color|Justice Party (Egypt)}}}} |{{increase}} 2 |- |[[2025 Egyptian parliamentary election|2025]] |{{Composition bar|11|596|{{party color|Justice Party (Egypt)}}}} |{{increase}} 9 |}
===Senate elections=== {| class=wikitable style=text-align:center !Election !Seats !+/– |- |[[2020 Egyptian Senate election|2020]] |{{Composition bar|0|300|{{party color|Justice Party (Egypt)}}}} |n/a |- |[[2025 Egyptian Senate election|2025]] |{{Composition bar|4|300|{{party color|Justice Party (Egypt)}}}} |{{increase}} 4 |- |}
==References== {{reflist|33em}}
==External links== *{{official website}} {{in lang|ar}}
{{Egyptian political parties}}
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