Umma Party

The Umma Party (Arabic: حزب الأمة, Hizb Al-Umma) is a small Egyptian political party with a total membership of around 185 members. The party platform presses for promoting the so-called socialist democracy and adopting the Islamic sharia as the main source of legislation. The Party expresses full support to efforts to establish peace with Israel.

Party principles

The party:^[1]

• Considers Egypt a part of the Arab and Islamic world
• Calls for establishing a socialist and democratic system in Egypt
• Calls of the adoption of Islamic law as the main source of legislation
• Supports all efforts to establish peace with Israel
• The party calls for building the society on principles of labor and production

The Party nominated its head, Ahmed Al-Sabahi, to run for Egypt's first contested presidential elections. The Party fielded one candidate in the 2000 legislative polls.

References

External links

• Ummah Party at Egypt State Information Service

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