| el-Ghad Party Hizb el-Ghad حزب الغد |
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| Chairperson | Moussa Moustafa Moussa |
| Founder | Ayman Nour |
| Slogan | Hand in Hand, we build tomorrow |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Cairo, Egypt |
| Newspaper | El-Ghad |
| Ideology | Secularism, Liberalism, Reformism, Liberal Democracy |
| Political position | Centrism |
| Religion | Secular |
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| Politics of Egypt Political parties Elections |
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The el-Ghad Party (Arabic: حزب الغد Ḥizb el-Ghad, IPA: [ˈħezb elˈɣæd]; "The Tomorrow Party") is an active 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. The party is currently represented in the upper house, the Shura Council by Moussa Moustafa Moussa.
The official El-Ghad Party, headed by Moussa Moustafa Moussa, is running the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011–2012 as an independent list. The split faction Ghad El-Thawra Party, headed by Ayman Nour, is part of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party-led Democratic Alliance for Egypt.[1]
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Ayman Nour left the New Wafd Party in 2001, and established El-Ghad. The party was legalized in 2004. After facing presidentHosni Mubarak in the Egyptian presidential election, 2005, Nour was was sentenced to five years in jail on forgery charges.[1]
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 Gamila Ismail.[1] 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.[2] Ayman Nour hence filed for a new party, Ghad El-Thawra Party or "Revolution's Tomorrow Party", which was approved on 9 October 2011.[1]
The removal of Nour from the party leadership by Moussa, and the latter's election to the Egyptian Upper House, have been seen as compliances with the Hosni Mubarak regime.[1]
The party platform calls for:
Ayman Nour has been tightly associated with both the El-Ghad name and party, even being accused of internal monopoly by other party members.[3] Since both Nour and Moussa fractions were using (and still are) the same name and insignia (ex: Ghad El-Thawra website[4]), it is often difficult to tell them apart. For instance, Liberal International lists El-Ghad, specifying its leader as Ayman Nour, as an observer member.[5] Many poll and media outlets use the term "El-Ghad" without specifying which party or faction they are referring to, [6] although they often mean the Ayman Nour Ghad El-Thawra faction.[7] [8]
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