Liberal_Constitutional_Party_(Egypt)

Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)

Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)

Liberal political party in Egypt (1922–1952)


The Liberal Constitutional Party (Arabic: حزب الاحرار الدستوريين, Ḥizb al-aḥrār al-dustūriyyīn) was an Egyptian political party founded in 1922 by a group of politicians who left the Wafd Party.

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History

The Liberal Constitutional Party was founded in 1922 during a meeting chaired by Adli Yakan Pasha,[1] and some time later the party launched a newspaper, the Al Siyasa (The Politics). Several Wafd-origin liberals like Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha, Muhammad Husayn Haykal and Ali Mahir Pasha joined the party. Although the Wafd Party was nationalist and conservative views, the new party supported the constitution which was approved on 19 April 1923, the secularization of the State, the United Kingdom and also the total unification of Egypt and Sudan. Muhammad Alluba, a supporter of the Palestine cause, served as the general secretary of the party in the 1930s.[2] It was banned, like the other political parties in Egypt, after the coup d'état of 1952.

Adly Yakan Pasha, the party's founder, and a three-time Prime minister of Egypt

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References

  1. Shillington, Kevin (2004). Encyclopedia of African History. Routledge. p. 800.
  2. Thomas Mayer (July 1982). "Egypt and the General Islamic Conference of Jerusalem in 1931". Middle Eastern Studies. 18 (3): 315. JSTOR 4282896.



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