The Political Role of Political Parties in Egypt After 2014: Mostaqbal Watan ‘The Nation’s Future Party’ is a Case Study
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https://doi.org/10.33367/ijhass.v5i1.4621Keywords:
, Mostaqbal Watan ‘The Nation’s Future Party’, parties, political system, ideology, political organizationsAbstract
Political parties are a fundamental kind of formal political associations and
one of their most significant manifestations. The effectiveness of these
parties contributes to the institutionalization of the system as they serve
as a conduit for communication between the authority and individuals.
The most important functions of these parties are represented in
participation, political education, and recruitment. These parties also
basically represent a group of people that share beliefs, such as a shared
destiny and unity of purpose. They strive to achieve the function by
gaining political power or, at least, by influencing state public
policymaking. Furthermore, the beginning of political associations in Egypt
dates to secret associations at the end of the 1960s of the 19th centuries.
Some sources indicated the existence of some secret societies in Al-
Azhar, in addition to other associations, at the end of the 1970s. As the
crisis deteriorated in society, which led to a sense of how bad the country
conditions had become, three political powers emerged: the army,
intellectuals, notables and scholars, and members of the Shura Council of
Representatives, which were represented by the political organizations
that were formed in that period, reflecting popular hopes for reform and
progress. To begin with, it can be said that the emergence of Mostaqbal
Watan ‘The Nation’s Future Party’ was not very different from the
emergence of several political parties that emerged after the January 25
Revolution, all of them were characterized by superiority and elitism.
Thus, it was more elitist and superior to a natural emergence among a
group of stakeholders that share at least an ideology or political reference
with each other. Accordingly, it can be said that founding the party came
in transitional circumstances, following the June 30 Revolution, when a
group of young people from the Egyptian Student Union carried out a
youth campaign entitled (The Nation’s Future). The main goal of this party
was to pass the 2014 constitution, but some quickly embraced the idea
and worked to transform it into a political party. This caused a great
uproar about the method of establishment and who was behind the party.
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