Reform and Development Party (Egypt)
political party
The Reform and Development Party (Arabic: حزب الأصلاح و التنمية, romanized: Hizb Al-Islah wa Al-Tanmiyah) is a political party in Egypt.
History and profile
The Reform and Development Party was founded in 2009 as a split from the Democratic Front Party. The founders of the party are Mohamed Anwar Esmat Sadat, the ex-president Anwar Sadat's nephew, and the Egyptian billionaire Raymond Lakah. The initial license application of the party was rejected in July 2010. It was legalized in May 2011, after Egypt's 25 January Revolution in 2011.
The party participated in the 2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election and won nine seats in the lower house.
Although the Reform and Development Party participated in the 2015 parliamentary elections, Sadat criticized the election process, which was delayed for seven months, as well as the Supreme Constitutional Court being allowed to rule on complaints against election laws.
It joined the Civil Democratic Movement when it launched in 2017.
The party has gradually distanced itself from president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and Sadat briefly ran in the 2018 Egyptian presidential election, though he withdrew. Sadat criticized the pro-Sisi "Alashan Tbneeha" (To Build It) campaign on constitutional grounds for allowing government employees to publicly support the campaign.
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