Liberal Constitutional Party (Egypt)

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.

Liberal Constitutional Party
حزب الاحرار الدستوريين
Historical leaderAdli Yakan Pasha
(1922-1933)
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha
(1933-1941)
Ali Maher Pasha
(1941-1952)
Founded30 October 1922 (1922-10-30)
Dissolved23 July 1952 (1952-07-23)
Split fromWafd Party
HeadquartersCairo
NewspaperAl Siyasa
IdeologyConstitutional monarchy
Liberal democracy
Social liberalism
Political positionCentre-left
International affiliationInternational Entente of Radical and Similar Democratic Parties
Liberal International
Colours  Violet

History

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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

Leaders

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Electoral history

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House of Representatives elections

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Election Party leader Seats +/– Position
1926
Adli Yakan Pasha
30 / 215
  30   2nd
1936
Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha
17 / 232
  13   2nd
1942 Ali Mahir Pasha
4 / 264
  13   2nd
1945
74 / 264
  70   2nd
1950
26 / 319
  48   3rd

References

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  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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