Civil Democratic Movement (2017)

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Civil Democratic Movement
Founded13 December 2017
Ideology Progressivism
Political position Centre-left
Factions:
Centre to left-wing
House of Representatives
24 / 568
Senate
7 / 300

The Civil Democratic Movement [1] (also called the National Civil Movement) [2] is a liberal political movement formed in Egypt in 2017. [3]

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The current alliance includes various parties that were also involved in the Civil Democratic Current; namely, the Constitution Party, the Dignity Party, Socialist Popular Alliance Party, [4] Egyptian Social Democratic Party [5] and the Bread and Freedom Party. [6] [7]

Affiliated parties

Numbers of seats in the 2020 parliament are shown in parentheses.

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References

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