Political Ideology
The party established on September 9th, 1978, by Ibrahim Shoukry and others was originally a Socialist party. Since 1986 the party has undergone a major ideological change turning into an Islamist party. This change was first demonstrated in the party's fifth conference in 1989 which was entitled "Reform from an Islamic prospective".
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