The Arab Democratic Nasserist Party is a Nasserist

Nasserism

Nasserism is an Arab nationalist political ideology based on the thinking of the former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. It was a major influence on pan-Arab politics in the 1950s and 1960s, and continues to have significant resonance throughout the Arab World to this day. It also...

 political party

Political party

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 in Egypt

Egypt

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, styling itself as the ideological successor of the old Arab Socialist Union

Arab Socialist Union (Egypt)

The Arab Socialist Union was an Egyptian political party based on the principles of Nasserist Arab socialism.-Emergence:The Arab Socialist Union was founded in Egypt in December 1962 by Gamal Abdel Nasser as the country's sole political party. The ASU grew out of the Free Officers Movement of the...

 party of Egypt's second president

President of Egypt

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, Gamal Abdel Nasser

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death. A colonel in the Egyptian army, Nasser led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 along with Muhammad Naguib, the first president, which overthrew the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan, and heralded a new period of...

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At the 2000 parliamentary elections, the party won three out of 454 seats. However, at the most recent legislative elections

Elections in Egypt

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 in November and December 2005, the party failed to win any seats.

History

The economic liberalizations

Infitah

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, and foreign policy changes implemented by Nasser's successor as president, Anwar El Sadat, alienated many ideological Nasserists

Nasserism

Nasserism is an Arab nationalist political ideology based on the thinking of the former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. It was a major influence on pan-Arab politics in the 1950s and 1960s, and continues to have significant resonance throughout the Arab World to this day. It also...

 in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One illegal group, the Thawrat Misri, or Egyptian Revolution was formed in 1980. After it was broken up by the government, several of Nasser's relatives were shown to be involved.

Ideological Nasserists gravitated to either the Socialist Labor Party

Socialist Labour Party (Egypt)

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 or the NPUF

National Progressive Unionist Party

The National Progressive Unionist Party is a socialist political party in Egypt. The party is considered to be the defender of the principles of the 1952 Revolution...

 throughout the rest of the decade. They were finally allowed to have an open legal party, the Arab Democratic Nasserist Party, led by Diya al-din Dawud, in 1992.

Platform

The party platform calls for:

• Social change towards progress and development.
• Defence and freedom of national will.
• Renouncing violence and combating terrorism
  Terrorism
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• Protecting public freedoms.
• Enhancing the role of the public sector
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• Modernizing the Egyptian industries.
• Developing the agriculture sector.
• Encouraging inter-Arab
  Pan-Arabism
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   economic integration.
• Providing free-of-charge medical treatment
  Universal health care
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  for citizens.
• Promoting peace in the world arena.