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	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Opinion \| New Wafd, new blood
		The new leader of the Wafd was chosen by the competent organ within the party in a truly exemplary competitive election.
		He joined the New Wafd Party when it was formed in 1977, because he thought that the party, besides its historical record, and not only because of it, has a useful role to play in Egypt's second experiment with a multi-party system.
		He is therefore likely to realise that the New Wafd cannot overcome its present crisis by reminding Egyptian citizens continually of its glorious struggle against the British and the monarchy, and that it must adapt to the new conditions prevailing in Egypt at the beginning of the 21st century.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/498/op7.htm (298 words)

	Wafd
		Egyptian nationalist political party that was the leading political organization of the country between World War I and the Nasser revolution (1918- 1952), and central in the work for establishing Egyptian independence.
		Wafd proved to be far more effective than other political groups to get popular support against British presence in Egypt, and exercised their power through demonstrations and riots in addition to participation in normal elections.
		Wafd was an important political factor in all fields of the society, by controlling 4 daily and 4 weekly newspapers.
	i-cias.com /e.o/wafd.htm (554 words)

	Wafd - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In World War II the party, which was anti-Axis, was installed in office from 1942 to 1944 at the insistence of Great Britain, which feared pro-Axis elements.
		The party lost much of its popularity because of charges of corruption and the support it had given the British during the war.
		The New Wafd party, established in 1978, had parliamentary representation in the 1980s but boycotted several elections in the 1990s.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wafd.html (513 words)

	Egypt - Elections
		There were more parties, because the New Wafd Party and the NPUP, excluded by Sadat, were readmitted, and the Muslim Brotherhood was allowed to run individual candidates under the auspices of an allied secular party.
		The NDP got 73 percent of the vote and took 390 of 448 seats whereas, the New Wafd Party-Brotherhood alliance captured 58 seats with 15 percent of the vote and emerged as the main opposition force.
		The smaller parties were excluded from parliament by the 8 percent rule.
	countrystudies.us /egypt/121.htm (1603 words)

	New Wafd Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Wafd Party ("New Delegation Party"; Arabic: Hizb al-Wafd al-Jadid حزب الوفد الجديد) is a nationalist liberal party in Egypt.
		Numan Gumaa is the party chairman and was presidential Wafd candidate.
		On January 18, 2006 the supreme committee for the party ousted its chairman Numan Gomaa from the party and from the presidency of the board of al-Wafd newspaper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Wafd_Party (873 words)

	The Real Cairo House
		The Serageldin residence acquired its unique historical significance with the rise in political prominence of Serageldin Pasha’s eldest son Fuad and the house’s role as the unofficial headquarters of the Wafd party.
		Party politics were suspended under Nasser’s socialist one-party regime but reinstated with restrictions under Sadat.
		Fuad Serageldin revived the New Wafd Party in 1977 as an opposition party, but it was promptly banned by Sadat, then resumed its activities under Mubarak.
	www.thecairohouse.com /therealhouse.html (788 words)

	Campaign slogan signals new era in Egyptian politics \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The decision of an opposition political party, the Wafd Party, to use one word – which literally means "we have been suffocated" – as a political slogan, and the government's permission for its use, has created a huge stir in Egypt's first multicandidate presidential elections.
		Wafd is one of modern Egypt's oldest parties, with a grand liberal tradition, and a reputation for being somewhat staid and out of touch.
		He said the advertisement had been permitted only after Wafd leaders threatened to boycott the campaign, which would have undermined the credibility of the whole exercise, unless the word was permitted.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050823/news_1n23egypt.html (620 words)

	Mubarak opponent pledges change: Africa: News: News24
		In the 1984 elections, Gomaa's New Wafd allied itself with the Brotherhood and won 58 seats in parliament.
		Gomaa, 70, and Ayman Nour, 40, a former Wafd member who leads the Al-Ghad party, are the biggest names standing against Mubarak, 77, in the elections, which are scheduled for September 7.
		Wafd "radically opposes the current US administration's policies" in the Middle East, particularly the US "occupation" of Iraq and its support for Israel in the Palestinian territories, he said.
	www.news24.com /News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1750752,00.html (449 words)

	Annual Report - The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The committee decided to suspend the activities of the Labor Party as well as the publication of its newspaper "Al Shaab" until the conclusion of the investigations at the Social Attorney General's office with the party's leadership, after which the issue would be presented before the Board of Political Parties and the governmental authorities.
		Parties have depended on Article 17 of the Law of Political Parties, which states that the Committee of Political Parties is not to suspend the parties' publication of newspapers as such actions stand against national interests.
		Therefore, the repression of the Labor Party and the closure of it newspaper, as well as the delay in the implementation of judicial rulings, have revealed that the government's policing actions do not abide by the constitution and are in fact detrimental to the development of democracy in Egypt.
	www.eohr.org /annual/2000/p9.htm (3821 words)

	Reforms, Freedom in Egypt
		Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP), which convened earlier this month under the banner of "New Thought and Reform Priorities," was quick to embrace the rhetoric of reform.
		And despite the new asserted political opening, these new reforms appear to actually restrain the political dialogue and engenders cynicism among some Egyptian democrats.
		Ghad is a new liberal political party that subscribes itself to the brief period of secular liberalism Egypt enjoyed under the Wafd Party, before the era of Nasserism and Pan-Arabism.
	www.aina.org /news/20041104100707.htm (764 words)

	Egyptian Government
		Laws prohibit the formation of political parties along class lines, which serves to restrict the emergence of some parties, particularly those on the left.
		Principal opposition groups were the Socialist Labor Party, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the New Wafd Party.
		Opposition parties boycotted the 1990 election in an unsuccessful effort to repeal legislation allowing the declaration of states of emergency.
	library.thinkquest.org /C007680/egyptiangov.html (719 words)

	The 2005 Egyptian Elections: How Free? How Important? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		While the New Wafd is turning down public funds, some smaller parties may have been attracted by the public financing provided for the campaign and the chance to avail themselves of what the PEC claims will be equal media coverage.
		Egyptian law requires political parties to receive the approval of a Parties Committee, which until recently had to certify that a party's platform did not contradict Islamic law or the ideals of the 1952 revolution that overthrew the monarchy, and that it represented an agenda "distinct" from that of already existing parties.
		At least seven parties that have applied will not be represented on the presidential ballot either because of disputes over who should stand as their candidate or because the PEC found irregularities in their governing documents.
	www.brookings.edu /views/papers/wittes/20050824.htm (3880 words)

	Egypt (03/07)
		Sadat introduced greater political freedom and a new economic policy, the most important aspect of which was the infitah or "open door." This relaxed government controls over the economy and encouraged private, including foreign, investment.
		Opposition party organizations make their views public and represent their followers at various levels in the political system, but power is concentrated in the hands of the President and the National Democratic Party majority in the People's Assembly and those institutions dominate the political system.
		Three new private satellite-based TV stations were launched in November 2001, marking a great change in Egyptian government policy.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5309.htm (5871 words)

	Egypt - The Opposition Parties
		The tiny Liberal Party was formed in 1976 from a right-wing sliver of the ASU by an ex-army officer.
		The Socialist Labor Party (SLP or Amal) was formed in 1979 under Sadat's encouragement to displace the NPUP (which was proving too critical) as the loyal opposition party of the left.
		The New Wafd Party was a coalition of landowners, professionals, and merchants, led by a number of prominent leaders of the original Wafd, notably Fuad Siraj ad Din.
	countrystudies.us /egypt/120.htm (951 words)

	Salon.com News \| Bush's war and the Egyptian elections
		Sadat paid for the new alliance with the U.S. and Israel with his life, when the radical al-Jihad al-Islami, with which Ayman al-Zawahiri was involved, and the Gamaa Islamiyah of the blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, arranged for his assassination.
		The leftist Tagammu Party got six seats, the New Wafd Party of the secular-leaning middle class received seven seats, the Nasserists (Arab nationalists and socialists) received three.
		The new middle class is represented by the New Wafd Party and by its new competitor, the Tomorrow (al-Ghad) Party.
	fairuse.1accesshost.com /news2/cole-egypt.html (2330 words)

	Publications
		According the al-Wafd newspaper, the liberal opposition Wafd party agreed on Mahmoud Abaza as a single candidate for party leader in the upcoming party elections due on June, 2 2006.
		The Wafd party had been going through a difficult phase after ousted former party leader Nooman Gomaa tried to regain power through legal and violent means, which on April 1 culminated in a gun battle in the party headquarter that injured more than 20.
		The Council of Ministers approved the new law of the judiciary in an urgent meeting on Tuesday June 13.
	www.defenddemocracy.org /publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=377399 (1201 words)

	Egypt‘s Culture Wars Lead to Crackdown on Labor Party, June 2, 2000
		Labor Party figure and al-Sha‘b columnist ‘Adel Hussein and his allies in the Party and at the paper launched new attacks on the book and the fact that it was being published with taxpayer funds.
		The Wafd Party paper al-Wafd tends towards sensationalism; The Nasserist paper al-‘Arabi and the leftist paper al-Ahali attack the government from the left, other small opposition papers have their own niches, and al-Sha‘b takes both an Islamist and a fiercely anti-corruption muckraking tack.
		One, meeting at the Party offices in the Qubba Gardens area of Cairo and claiming 1,400 party members were present, withdrew confidence from Chairman Shukri and Secretary-General Hussein and named a retired film actor, Hamdi Ahmad, a founder of the Labor Party in its original incarnation, as the new Party Chairman.
	www.theestimate.com /public/060200.html (2254 words)

	Islamic Extremism & Modern Egypt: An Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The socioeconomic structure was faced with the emergence of a new upper class, mainly merchants and middlemen, aggravated inflation on an unheard of scale, with the majority of economic burden falling on the middle and lower classes.
		Thus, the Brotherhood ran under the umbrella of the New Wafd party in 1984, and with the Socialist Labor party in 1987.
		This opening of the economy was creating a new class of rich opportunists and their spoiled children who were able to buy the luxury goods that were flooding the stores and to purchase the new apartments that were being built.
	www.mideastinfo.com /archive/paper4.htm (5881 words)

	Political Parties - Government - Egypt - Africa
		The government tolerates opposition parties that are not based on religion or on ideologies hostile to the state, but it often restricts their ability to propagate their policies and to run candidates for national or local elections.
		Legal opposition parties include the New Wafd Party, the National Progressive Unionist Party, the Liberal Socialist Party, the Socialist Labor Party, and the Nasserist Party.
		Despite the constitutional ban on religious parties, many Egyptians support the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Group, or other technically illegal political movements that are not allowed to present candidates for legislative elections.
	www.countriesquest.com /africa/egypt/government/political_parties.htm (229 words)

	Long Island Press: Long Island Newspaper, News, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds, Automotive, Weddings, Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gomaa still claims to be leader of the party and says he has been ousted by a small group of rebels.
		The original Wafd, which traces its roots to an unofficial delegation that lobbied for independence from Britain in 1919, dominated Egyptian politics until the 1952 revolution, after which the army officers who took power banned political parties.
		Like other secular opposition parties in Egypt, the Wafd, officially called the New Wafd Party since its revival in the 1970s, has not made a significant impact on domestic politics.
	www.longislandpress.com /reuters/1_ds_141484.php?show=about (383 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Guide to Egypt's election
		Of the 454 seats, 10 are appointed by presidential decree and 444 are elected.
		The Front includes three of the opposition parties already represented in parliament: the New Wafd Party, the Nasirite Party and al-Tajammu.
		Another key opposition party, al-Ghad, whose candidate Ayman Nur came second to Hosni Mubarak in the presidential election, is struggling after a rift between Mr Nur and a rival, Musa Mustafa Musa.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/4417150.stm (840 words)

	Egyptian presidential election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the New Wafd Party and the Tomorrow (Ghad) Party contested the election even though they had opposed the May 2005 constitutional referendum, and their respective candidates, Numan Gumaa and Ayman Nour, drew significant support -- Nour won 12% and Gumaa won 5-7%.
		Wael Namara, a spokesman for Ayman Nour of the Tomorrow Party, estimated turnout to be between 10 and 15% in the countryside and from 3 to 5% in the cities.
		News media reported that Mubarak's National Democratic Party transported voters to the polls by bus,[21] and allegedly did not allow voters to mark their choices behind a curtain, an essential requirement of a secret ballot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egyptian_presidential_election,_2005 (1710 words)

	State Information Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wafd Party presidential candidate Noaman Goma called on the people of Upper Egypt to overcome apathy and participate in the forthcoming polls, saying that ballot boxes are the seeds of reform.
		In other news, the NDP candidate held a video conference with party members in Aswan, expressing his satisfaction with improved state development in the governorate and pledged to ensure that sewage networks cover the whole country.
		Democratic Unionist Party presidential candidate Ibrahim Tork told supporters at a campaign rally in the city of Rachid, that his platform is based on realistic solutions not slogans.
	www2.sis.gov.eg /Functions/S_Print.asp?ArtId=040202010000000011&lg=En (1257 words)

	Gulfnews: Opposition flays Mubarak's 'scandalous' campaigning
		The New Wafd party yesterday called the president's campaigners scandalous while three journalists of the Al Ghad daily newspaper filed a case against the Mubarak and Interior Minister Habib Al Adli over irregularities in campaigning.
		Dr Numan Juma, the Chairman of New Wafd, and Ayman Nour, Editor-in-Chief of Al Ghad and the chairman of the party of the same name, are also running for the president's post.
		Al Gandour told Gulf News that they were char-ged with using the seats in their cabin to sleep during the long journey.
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/05/09/04/180097.html (623 words)

	Middle East Report 209: Behind the Ballot Box: Electoral Engineering in the Arab World, by Marsha Pripstein-Posusney
		An alliance of the New Wafd Party and the Muslim Brotherhood was the only opposition grouping able to surmount the eight percent barrier, obtaining the remaining 13 percent of the seats.
		Several new parties had been legalized, and the government agreed to double the limited amount of airtime available to the opposition.
		Thus, the ruling party emerged from the poll with 94 percent of the contested seats.
	www.merip.org /mer/mer209/marsha.htm (3178 words)

	Egypt’s Party of Tomorrow
		Their views are descendent from the old Wafd party that collapsed in the 1952 revolution of Free Officers, which ushered in Gamal Abdul Nasser and with him, Arab socialism.The Wafd party emerged in Egypt around the 1930s and even contributed toward the country’s independence.
		The party was known for its very liberally minded and progressive views.In fact, Makram-Ebeid is the granddaughter of Makram-Ebeid Pasha, a famous Coptic politician and former secretary-general of the Wafd party.In an interview with the Daily Star, the young Makram-Ebeid stated:
		She added “because we are in a different era, in the modern world, the symbol chosen is a woman.”Makram-Ebeid has been a pioneer of democracy and liberalism in Egypt and is still at the head of the movement.
	unix.dfn.org /printer_EgyptsPartyofTomorrow.shtml (637 words)

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