Egyptian Wafd Alliance

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Egyptian Wafd Alliance [1]
Founded4 August 2014

The Egyptian Wafd Alliance was an alliance of political parties that would have run in the 2015 Egyptian parliamentary election. [1] The Egyptian Social Democratic Party left the alliance and will run independently. [2] The Tagammu Party left the Wafd Alliance [3] and will run for individual seats. [4] The Justice Party announced on 15 February 2015 that it will not participate in the election. [5] The New Wafd Party, Conservative Party and Reform and Development Party joined the For the Love of Egypt alliance. [6]

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