Authenticity Party حزب الأصالة | |
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Chairman | Ehab Shiha [1] |
Founded | July 2011 [2] |
Ideology |
Religious conservatism Islamism Salafism |
Political position | Far-right |
National affiliation | National Legitimacy Support Coalition [3] |
House of Representatives | 0 / 568 |
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The Authenticity Party ( Arabic: حزب الأصالة, ḥizb el-asala) is one of the political parties created in Egypt after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. It has an ultra-conservative Islamist Salafist ideology, which believes in implementing strict Sharia law. [4] The party was formed by the former head of the Virtue Party, General Adel Abdel Maksoud; he left the Virtue Party after allegedly discovering a plot which changed the moderate principles of the party. [5] The party is considering leaving the Anti-Coup Alliance. [6]
In the 2011–12 Egypt parliamentary elections, the Authenticity party ran on the platform of the Islamist Bloc led by Al-Nour Party, another Salafist party. The Islamist Bloc received 7,534,266 votes out of a total 27,065,135 correct votes (27.8%). The Islamist Bloc gained 127 of the 498 parliamentary seats contested, second-place after the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party. The Authenticity Party received 3 of these 127 seats. [7]
The Authenticity Party is one of the eleven Islamic parties targeted by a lawsuit in November 2014, when an organization named Popular Front for opposing the Brotherhoodization of Egypt sought to dissolve all political parties established "on a religious basis." [8] The Alexandria Urgent Matters Court however ruled on 26 November 2014 that it lacked jurisdiction. [9]