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埃及政党法
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Official Journal – Issue No. 27 – Dated 7th of July 1977
Law No. 40 of the year 1977 Concerning the Political Parties System and its Amendments
In the Name of the People,
The President of the Republic,
The People’s Assembly passed the following Law and it is herby promulgated by us:
Part- 1
Political Parties
Article (1)
Egyptians shall have the right to form political parties and each Egyptian shall have the
right to become affiliated to any political party according to the provisions of the present
law.
Article (2)
A political Party shall mean every organized group founded according to the provisions
of the present law based on common principles and purposes and operating by
democratic political methods toward the actualization of the defined programs connected
with the state’s political, economic and social affairs, through participating in the
responsibilities of governance.
Article (3)
Political parties founded according to the provisions of the present law shall contribute to
achieving the political, social, and economic progress of the country on the basis of
national unity, the alliance of the people’s working forces, social peace, democratic
socialism, and maintenance of the workers’ and farmers’ gains, in the manner defined in
the Constitution.
These parties, being considered as national, public, and democratic organizations, shall
work on rallying the citizens and representing them politically.
Article (4)1
The foundation or continuance of any political party shall be conditional upon the
following:
First:
The party shall have a name dissimilar to or not resembling the name of an already
existing arty.
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Second:
The principles, purposes, programs, policies, or methods of the party in exercising its
activities shall not contradict the Constitution or exigencies of preserving national unity,
social peace, and the democratic system.
Third:
The party shall have programs representing an addition to political life according to
defined purposes and methods.
Fourth:
The party, in its principles, programs, the exercise of its activity, or the election of its
leaderships or members, shall not be founded on a religious, class, sectarian, categorical,
or geographical basis, or on the exploitation of religious feelings, or discrimination
because of race, origin, or creed.
Fifth:
The party’s methods shall not embrace the establishment of any sort of military or
paramilitary formations.
Sixth:
The party shall not be founded as a branch of a foreign political party or organization.
Seventh:
The party’s principles, purposes, methods, organizations, as well as means and sources of
its finance must be made public.
Article (5)
The statute of the party shall comprise the rules regulating all its political, organizational,
financial and administrative affairs, in accordance with the provisions of this law.
This statute shall comprise particularly the following:
First:2
Name of the Party.
Second:
Indication of the party’s head office and its subsidiary premises, if any. All premises of
the party shall be seated within the Arab republic of Egypt, in other than the productive,
service, or educational locations.
Third:
The principles or purposes on which the party is based, and the programs or methods it
calls for, toward realizing these purposes.
2 Amended as per Law No. 177/2005
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Fourth:
Conditions of the party’s membership, the rules and procedures of joining it , discharging
from its membership, and withdrawing from it.
No membership conditions shall be set on the basis of discrimination because of religious
creed, origin, race, or social standing.
Fifth:
Method and procedures of constituting the formations of the party, electing its
leaderships and command agencies, exercising its activity, organizing its relation with its
members on democratic grounds, and determining the political, organizational, financial
and administrative powers of any of these leaderships and formations, along with
securing the largest extent for democratic discussion within these formations.
Sixth:
The party’s financial system, comprising the determination of its different resources, the
bank where its funds are deposited, the rules and procedures regulating the spending from
these funds, and the rules and procedures of holding, auditing, and approving the party’s
accounts as well as preparing and endorsing its annual budget.
Seventh:
Rules and procedures of voluntary dissolution and merger of the party, regulation of its
funds liquidation, and the entity to which these funds shall devolve.
Article (6)3
Subject to the provisions of the two provisions articles, whoever joins the membership of
any political party shall fulfill the following conditions:
1.
He shall be an Egyptian citizen. If he is naturalized, he shall have passed at least
ten years since his naturalization. However, whoever participates in founding the
party or assumes a leading position therein shall have been born of an Egyptian
father.
2.
He shall be enjoying his political rights.
3.
He shall not be a member of the judiciary bodies, or an officer or a member of the
armed or police forces, or among the members of the administrative control or
general intelligence agencies, or a member of the diplomatic, or commercial
corps.
Article (7)4
A written notification shall be submitted to the Chairman of the Political Parties Affairs
Committee prescribed in Article (8) of this law, on the foundation of the party, signed by
at least one thousand of its founding members whose signatures shall be officially
legalized, providing they shall be from at least ten governorates with at least fifty
members of them from each governorate. The notification shall be enclosed with all
3 Amended as per Laws Nos. 36/1979, 144/1980 then 177/2005
4 Amended per Laws Nos. 144/1980 then 177/2005
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documents related to the party, particularly its articles of association and statute, the
names of its founding members, an indication of the funds provided for founding the
party.
The notification on founding the party as well as the documents attached to it, shall be
submitted to the committee referred to in the provisions clause within fifteen days from
submitting the original notification.
Article (8)5
The Political Parties Affairs Committee shall be set as follows:
1. The President of the Shura Chairman
Council
2.The Minister of Interior
3.The Minister of People’s
Assembly Affairs
4. Three former presidents of
the judiciary bodies or their
Members
deputies, non-affiliated to any
political party
5. Three public figures nonaffiliated
to any political party.
The election of the members prescribed in items (4) and (5) shall take place by virtue of a
decree by the President of the Republic, for a three year renewable term.
The committee shall be concerned with examining and studying the notifications
concerning the foundation of political parties according to the provisions of this law, in
addition to the other powers prescribed herein.
The committee’s meeting shall not be valid except with the attendance of its chairman
and at least six of its members.
The committee’s decisions shall be issued by the majority of votes of attending members,
and in case of equal voting; the chairman shall have the deciding vote.
The committee, toward exercising its powers, may require that the persons concerned
submit the documents, papers, data, and explanations considered by it to be necessary,
within the timelimits determined thereby. It may also require any documents, papers,
data, or information from any official or public entity, and conduct by itself or by one of
its subsidiary committees, whatever research it decides, and charge any official entity it
5 Amended as per Laws Nos. 30/1981, 221/1994 then 177/2005
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chooses to conduct any investigation, research, or necessary study for reaching the truth
in all that is presented to it.
The founders of the party of the persons representing them in its procedures of foundation
shall publish the names of its founders who are mentioned in the foundation notification,
at their expense, in two widely circulated daily newspapers, within thirty days from the
date of notification, on the form to be provided for the purpose by the Political Parties
Affairs Committee, along with advising the committee of having completed the foregoing
within three days from the date of publication.
The committee shall issue its decision concerning the foundation of the party within
ninety days from the date of submitting the foundation notification. The committee’s
decision refusing the foundation notification of the party shall be duly substantiated after
hearing the relevant necessary explanations from the persons concerned. The lapse of the
said period without issuing a decision by the committee concerning the foundation of the
party shall be considered tantamount to a decision of acceptance of its foundation.
The chairman of the committee shall notify the foundation applicants’ representatives of
the refusal decision and its reasons, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt
within at most ten days from the date on which the decision is issued.
The refusal or non-refusal decisions issued by the committee concerning the foundation
of the party shall be published in the Official Journal and in two widely circulated daily
newspapers within the period determined in the provisions clause.
The applicants for the foundation of the party may, within thirty days following
publication of the refusal decision in the Official Journal, appeal for the annulment of
such decision before the First Circuit of the Higher Administrative Court presided by the
head of the State Council, providing it shall be joined by a similar number of efficient
public figures enjoying a good reputation who are not less than 40 years of ago and not
members of the legislative authority, to be chosen by virtue of a decree by the Minister of
Justice, following approval of the Higher Council of Judicial Authorities, from the public
figures’ lists.
The court shall decide on the appeal within at most four months from the date of lodging
the appeal.
Article (9)6
The party shall enjoy the judicial personality and exercise its political activity effective
from the day following publication of the non-refusal decision concerning the foundation
of the party as issued by the Political Parties Affairs Committee, or on the day following
the lapse of the ninety day period prescribed in Article (8) of this law, or effective from
the day on which the Higher Administrative Court’s ruling is passed annulling the
decision refusing the foundation of the party.
6 Amended as per Laws Nos. 36/1979, 108/1992 then 177/2005
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With the exception of the administrative procedures that end with submitting the
notification prescribed in Article (7) of this law, no party activity shall be exercised nor
any act be carried out, in the name of the party, before the party acquires the judicial
personality.
Article (9) Bis7
The freedom of exercising the political activity by the party shall be guaranteed,
providing it shall be exercised within the limits of the law. Toward that end, the party
may in particular do the following:
1.
Propagating by lawful methods for its thoughts, and publishing information on its
activities;
2.
Participating in public referendums and elections;
3.
Using the state-owned audio-visual media, particularly during election campaigns,
according to the regulatory rules in this regard.
Article (9) Bis-A8
The political party, toward exercising its activities as prescribed in Article (9 bis) of the
present law, shall enjoy all the guarantees securing the freedom of this exercise, in
particular the following:
1.
Impermissibility of stipulating a mention of the party’s membership in official
documents;
2.
Equality in treatment between the members of the competing parties, and non-
discriminating between them for a reason due to the membership of a specific
party.
Article (10)
The head of the party shall be the one representing it in all that is related to its affairs
before the judiciary or any other entity, or vis-à-vis third parties.
The head of the party may delegate one or more of the party’s leaderships to assume on
his behalf some of his powers according to the statute of the party.
Article (11)9
The resources of the party shall be formed of its members’ subscriptions, the financial
support it receives from the State, and the donations of Egyptian natural persons, as well
as the proceeds of investing its funds in the non-commercial aspects defined in its statute.
Investing the party’s funds in issuing newspaper or in exploiting publishing or printing
houses, shall not be considered a commercial aspect, in applying the present article, if its
basic aim is to serve the party’s purposes.
The party may not accept any donation, privilege, or benefit from an alien, a foreign or
international entity, or from any juridical person even if it enjoys the Egyptian
nationality.
7 Added as per Law No. 177/2005
8 Added as per Law No. 177/2005
9 Amended as per Laws Nos. 108/1992 then 177/2005
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The party shall notify the Central Audit Agency for the donations it received, and of the
data of the donors, at the end of the year.
The value of the donations offered to the parties shall not be deducted from any taxable
base.
Article (12)
The party’s funds shall not be expended except on its proper purposes and aims according
to the rules and procedures compromised in its statute.
The party shall deposit its funds in one of the Egyptian banks, and shall hold regular
account books comprising the party’s revenues and expenditures according to the rules to
be determined in its statute.
The Central Audit Agency shall periodically audit the books and documents of the
party’s revenues an expenditures account and its other financial affairs, to ascertain the
soundness of the party’s resources and legitimacy of its funds expenditure aspects. They
party shall enable the Agency to carry out the forgoing.
The said Agency shall draw up an annual report on the financial standing and affairs of
the party and notify the head of the Political Parties Affairs Committee of such a report.10
Article (13)
The party-owned premises and establishments as well as its funds shall be exempted from
all general and local taxes and duties.
Article (14)
The party’s funds shall be considered as public funds in applying the provisions of the
Penal Code. Those in charge of managing the party’s affairs and the party’s workers shall
be considered as public officials in applying the provisions of the said law, and the
provisions of the Illicit Gain Law shall apply to them all.
In other than the case of being caught in the act of felony or misdemeanor, no premises of
the party shall be inspected except in the presence of one of the heads of public
prosecution, otherwise the inspection shall be considered null and void.
The public prosecution shall notify the head of the political parties affairs committee of
the measures taken at the party’s premises within forty eight hours from taking these
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measures.
Article (15)12
10 Amended as per Law No. 144/1980
11 Amended as per Laws Nos. 36/1979 then 177/2005
12 Amended as per Laws Nos. 36/1979 then 177/2005
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Without prejudice to the right of issuing papers according to the provisions prescribed in
law no. 96 of the year 1996 regulating the press, each party shall have the right of issuing
two papers at most for expressing its views, without restriction by the exigency of
obtaining the license prescribed in the said law.
Article (16)13
The party shall notify the head of the Political Parties Affairs Committee, by registered
letter with acknowledgement of receipt, of the formation of its higher board according to
its articles of association or statute, and of all the decisions issued by the party for
changing its head or any member of its higher board, of for dissolving or merging the
party, or for introducing any amendment to its articles of association or statute, within ten
days from the date of issuing the board’s formation or the decision.
In establishing the quality of the party’s candidate from among its higher board members
for the presidential elections, nothing but the data set forth in the said notification shall be
reckoned with unless otherwise is established.
Article (17)14
The head of the Political Parties Affairs Committee may, following the committee’s
approval, request the Higher Administrative Court formed as prescribed in Article(8) of
the law, to pass a ruling dissolving the party and liquidating its funds along with
determining the entity to which these funds shall devolve, if, through the report of the
socialist public prosecutor, after the investigations conducted by him, and upon the
request of the Parties Affairs Committee, the non-fulfillment of any conditions
prescribed in Article (4 )of this law is established.
The court shall schedule a session for examining this request within seven days from
notifying it to the head of the party at its headquarters. The court shall decide on the
request within thirty days at most from the date of the said session.
The committee may, according to the exigencies of public interest, and in expeditious
cases, order the temporary suspension of the party’s activity or of one of its leaderships,
or of any contravening decision or act taken hereby, in the case set forth in the first clause
of the present article, or in case it is established to the committee, upon the socialist
public prosecutor’s report after conducting an investigation, that the party, or one of its
leaderships or members has dissented from the principles prescribed in Article (4) of the
present law.
The suspension decision shall be enforced effective from the date of its issue, and it shall
be published in the Official Journal and in one of widely circulated daily newspapers. It
shall also be notified to the head of the party at its headquarters within three day from its
13 Amended as per Laws Nos. 144/1980 then 177/2005
14 Amended as per Laws Nos. 36/1979 then 177/2005
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date of issue by registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt. The committee shall
submit the suspension order decision to the Higher Administrative Court in its formation
as referred to in the first clause of the present article, coupled with a request for a
suspension ruling from the court, within seven days at most from its date of issue,
otherwise the suspension order shall be considered as null and void.
The Court shall pass its ruling concerning the request within a period not exceeding
fifteen days from the date of submitting the suspension order to it, and shall decide on the
extent of continuing the operation of the temporary suspension order whenever it deems
necessary to defer examining the request.
The party may contest the suspension ruling, before the court, after the lapse of three
months from the court ruling date. If its complaint is refused, the party may submit a new
complaint whenever a period of three months lapses from the date of the complaint
refusal ruling.
The complaint shall be filed by means of a report to be deposited at the clerks’ office of
the court. The president of the court shall schedule a session for examining the complaint
and the session shall be notified to the complainant party and all persons concerned. The
court shall decide on the complaint within a period not exceeding fifteen days from the
date of submitting the relevant report.
Article (18)15
The state shall provide annual financial support to the political parties, the appropriations
of which shall be included in the budget of the Shura Council.The Political Parties
Affairs Committee shall assume its distribution as follows:
1.
One hundred thousand pounds annually to each party for a period of ten years.
For entitlement to this support after that period, the party shall conditionally have
at least one seat won by one of its candidates in the People’s Assembly or the
Shura Council elections.
2.
Five thousand pounds for each seat won by the party candidate in the People’s
Assembly or the Shura Council elections, with a maximum of five hundred
thousand pounds for each party.
Article (19)16
CANCELLED
Article (20)17
CANCELLED
Article (21)18
15 Amended as per Laws Nos. 36/1979 then 177/2005
16 Cancelled as per Law No. 144/1980
17 Cancelled as per Law No. 144/1980
18 Amended as per Law No. 144/1980
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The Political Parties Affairs Committee shall set the rules regulating the party’s
communication with any foreign political party or organization based on the proposition
made by the head of this committee.
No party may cooperate or ally with any foreign political party or organization except
according to the rules referred to in the provisions clause.
Part – 2
Penalties
Article (22)19
Whoever establishes, founds, organizes, manages, or finances in any form contrary to the
provisions of the present law, an illegal party organization even if under any religious
veil, or in the form of an association, body, organization, or group whatever the name or
description dubbed to it, shall be liable to the penalty of imprisonment.
The penalty shall be lifetime or temporary penal servitude if the illegal party organization
is hostile to the system of the society, or if it is of military or paramilitary nature, or is
taking the form of violent training aimed at preparation for fighting, or if the crime is
committed on the basis of communicating with a foreign country.
The penalty shall be lifetime penal servitude if the crime is committed on the basis of
communicating with an enemy country.
In all cases, the court in passing a conviction sentence shall rule dissolving the said
organizations, closing their locations, and confiscating their funds, possessions, tools, and
related papers or those prepared for use by them.
Article (23)20
Whoever joins an illegal party organization even if this party is under any religious veil,
or in the form of association, body, organization, or a group whatever the name or
description dubbed to it, shall be confined to jail.
The penalty shall be imprisonment if the organization mentioned in the provisions clause
is hostile to the system of the society, or if it is of a military or paramilitary nature, or is
taking the form of violent training aimed at preparation for fighting, or was established
through communication with a foreign county and the delinquent was aware of it.
The penalty shall be temporary penal servitude if the said organization was established
through communication with an enemy country and the delinquent was aware of it.
Article (24)
19 Amended as per Law No. 156/1981
20 Amended as per Law No. 156/1981
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Whoever hastens to notify the competent authorities of the existence of any of the
organizations referred to in the two provisions articles shall be exonerated from the
penalty if the notification takes place after beginning the investigation.
The court may exonerate from the penalty if the notification takes place after beginning
the investigations and helps in disclosing the other criminals.
Article (25)
A penalty of confinement to jail shall be inflicted on any executive in a political party, or
any of its members or workers accepting or receiving a fund direct or through an
intermediary or obtaining a privilege or benefit without due right from an Egyptian
juridical person for exercising any activity related to the party.
The penalty shall be imprisonment if the fund, privilege, or benefit is accepted or
received from a foreigner or any foreign entity. The court shall in all cases rule
confiscating all funds acquired through the crime.
Article (26)21
Whoever breaches the provisions of the second clause of Article (22) of this law shall be
liable to confinement to jail and a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds or either
penalty.
Whoever breaches the provisions of the second clause of Article (9) or the first or second
clause of Article (12) of this law, shall be liable to confinement to jail for a period of not
less than one year and not exceeding five years.
Whoever breaches the provisions of Article (4) of the present law shall be liable to
imprisonment.
Article (27)
The provisions of the present law shall not prejudice any stricter penalty prescribed in the
Penal Code or in any other law.
21 Amended as per Law No. 108/1992
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Part – 3
Final and Temporary Provisions
Article (28)
In exception of the provisions of Article (7), it is stipulated for the foundation of any
political party effective from the date of enforcing this law until beginning the last
session of the present law until beginning the last session of the present legislative term
of the People’s Assembly, that at least twenty members of the said Assembly shall be
among the founders of the party.
Article (29)
With the exception of all that is determined and regulated by a decision to be issued by
the central committee of the Arab Socialist Union within thirty days from the date of
enforcing the present law, the secretariats, organizations, committees, and conferences of
the said union shall be annulled.
Article (30)
The list of the current three political organizations shall continue to exist:
1. Misr Arab Socialist Party.
2. The Free Socialists Party
3. The National Progressive United Grouping Party.
These political organizations shall enjoy their juridical personality and shall exercise their
political activity as parties according to the provisions of this law. They shall provide the
Secretary of the Central Committee and the Minister concerned with the public and
political organizations with the papers and documents connected with their foundation
within thirty days from the effective date of this law.
Article (31)
A decision by the Central Committee’s Secretary shall be issued determining – according
to the rules to be set by the committee – al that will devolve to the parties formed
according to the provisions of this law, from the funds of the Union within sixty days
from the date of its enforcement.
The right of leasing the locations occupied by the said Union may be relinquished by a
decision of the Secretary of the Central Committee to any of the aforementioned parties,
any of the State’s administrative system units, or to any of the public authorities or other
public juridical persons, according to the rules to be set by the Central Committee.
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The entity, for which the decision relinquishing the location is issued according to the
provisions of the provisions clause, shall, by force of law, replace the said Union.
Article (32)
Articles (2 and 6) of decree-law No. 37 for the year 1953 dissolving the political parties
shall be superseded. The parties that were subject to the said decree-law, or those whose
constituents contradict the principles of the 23rd of July, 1952 and the 15th of May 1971
revolutions may not be re-formed on the basis of the provisions of this law.
Articles (2, 3 and 9) of law No. 34 of the year 1972 concerning the protection of national
unity, and Article (2) of decree-law No. 2 of the year 1977 on protection of the nation’s
and citizen’s freedom shall be superseded.22
All rulings contradicting the provisions of this law shall also be superseded.
Article (33)
This law shall be published in the Official Journal and shall come into force effective
from the date of its publication.
This law shall be stamped with the seal of the state and shall be enforced as one of its
laws.
Anwar Al Sadat
Issued at the Presidency of the Republic on 15 Rajab 1397 (Islamic Calendar),
corresponding to 2 July 1977 (Gregorian Calendar)
22 Laws Nos. 34/1972 and 2/1977 cancelled as per Decree-Law No. 194/1983
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The Main Features of the Amended Law on Political Parties 2011
Decree No. 12 Issued by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces issued Decree No. 12 of 2011 amending some articles of Law No. 40 of 1977 regulating the system of political parties.
Article One
The following shall replace Articles No. 4, 6 (I), 7, 8, 9, 11 and 17 of Law No. 40 of 1977 regulating the system of political parties.
Article 4
The following are the prerequisites for forming and/or maintaining a political party:
First: The name of a party may not be correspondent or similar to that of an existing party.
Second: A party's principles, goals, platforms, policies and/or methods of operation should not contradict the basic principles of the Constitution or the prerequisites of protecting Egypt's national security, national unity, social peace or democratic system.
Third: In its principles, platforms, methods of operation and choice of leaderships and members a party may neither be based on religion, class, sect, profession or geography, nor be established on account of gender, language, religion or creed.
Fourth: A party's methods of operation may not include the establishment of military or paramilitary formations.
Fifth: A party may not be a chapter/branch of a foreign party or a political organization.
Sixth: A party's principles, goals, methods, organizations, and financing tools and sources shall be made public.
Article 6 (1)
Party members should be Egyptian citizens; in case members are naturalized citizens, they should spend at least five years as such before they are allowed into a party.
A party’s founders and leaders should meet the requirement of having an Egyptian father.
Article 7
A written notification of the establishment of the party shall be submitted to the Committee on Political Parties described under Article 8 of the law; a list of the names and signatures of 5000 of its founding members should be attached; the signatures should also be officially ratified.
Also to be attached are all party-related documents, particularly the statutes and bylaws, the names of the founding members, the funds raised to establish said party, its sources, and the names of the representatives handling party establishment procedures.
Said notification and documents shall be presented to the Committee mentioned in paragraph 1 within 15 days of submission.
Article 8
The Committee on Political Parties shall include:
The first Vice President of the Court of Cassation as Chairperson
Two deputies of the President of the Court of Cassation as members
Two Presidents of the Court of Appeals (chosen by the Supreme Judicial Council) as members
Two deputies of the President of the State Council (chosen by the Special Council) as members
The Court of Cassation shall be the headquarters of Committee.
The Committee is responsible for examining as per the provisions of the law the notifications whereby political parties are established. Unless the chairperson and four members are present, meetings of the Committee shall be invalid.
The Committee’s decisions are reached by a majority of at least four members.
For the purpose of fulfilling its assignment, the Committee may request the documents, papers, statements and discoveries it deems necessary, from those it considers of interest, and within the time limit it defines; it may also requisition any documents, papers, statements and/or information from any agency/authority; conduct researches by itself or through a sub-committee; commission official and/or public authorities to hold the investigations, researches or studies required to unveil the truth concerning issues under examination.
Party founders or the representatives handling establishment procedures shall publish the names of the founding members included in the notification at the party’s expense in two widely circulated newspapers within 8 days of notification on a form prepared by the Committee. The Committee should be alerted to the advertisement.
A party is considered approved 30 days after notification barring Committee objections.
In the case that the Committee objects to the establishment of a party, a decision is made to that effect, which is referred for adjudication to the first circuit of the Supreme Administrative Court within a period of no more than eight days. The Committee’s decisions are voided once submitted to the Court within said period.
The Committee’s no-objection decisions and court rulings against Committee objections shall be published in the Official Gazette and in two widely-circulated newspapers within a period of ten days from the adoption of the decisions by the Committee and of rulings by the court.
Article 9
A party shall have a legal personality and shall be entitled to engaging in political activities 30 days after notification without a no-objection or an approval decision being pronounced by the Committee; or on the day that the first circuit of the Supreme Administrative Court rules against the Committee’s objections; or eight days after the Committee’s objections are referred to the Court.
Article 11
A party’s resources comprise membership subscriptions, donations of Egyptian natural persons and profits from investments in non-commercial activities defined in the party’s bylaws.
For the purpose of this Article, investing in newspapers-publication or in using publishers and printing presses with the main goal of serving the interests of a party is not considered a commercial activity.
A party may not accept donations, advantages or privileges offered by foreigners, foreign or international agencies, and/or legal entities even if Egyptian.
A party should notify the Central Auditing Agency of any donations received and of information on donors by the end of each year.
Party donations are not tax-deductible.
Article 17
The Chairperson of the Committee on Political Parties may, after approval, request the Supreme Administrative Court to dissolve a party, liquidate its assets and decide to have its funds moved, if an investigation by the Prosecutor-General proves that a condition provided for under Article 4 of this law is contravened or voided.
The Court shall set a date for a hearing within the following eight days, during which the president of said party is notified at party headquarters. The Court rules within a period of 30 days from the date of the hearing session.
Article Two
Article 18 of Law No. 40 of 1977 regulating the system of political parties is abolished.
Article Three
This decree shall be published in the Official Gazette and shall have the force of law the day following publication.
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