Egypt Arab Socialist Party

The Egypt Arab Socialist Party (حزب مصر العربي الاشتراكي Hizb Misr Al-'Arabi Al-Ishtiraki) is a political party in Egypt.

History and profile
The party was established in 1976 by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and its head was Mamdouh Salem. He served as the prime minister of Egypt from 1975 to 1978.

The party generally presses for preserving gains of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.

It started as a Political Organisation that was part of the single-ruling party at the time, the Arab Socialist Union (ASU). And It participated in Republican Egypt's first ever multi-faction election in 1976. It won a large majority of seats in that election becoming the largest political faction in Egypt. In 1977 It became a political party after the ASU was dissolved, and it kept being the largest party in Egypt until 1978. During that year, President Sadat announced the creation of his new political party, the National Democratic Party (NDP). Not long after that announcement, all prominent members and all members of Parliament of the EASP joined the President's new party along with other members of parliament. Only a very small faction of the party stayed and the It continued to function as a minor party, barely having any presence in Egypt's political scene.

Later, the party nominated its head, Wahid Al-Uksory, to run for Egypt's first multi-candidate presidential election in 2005. It was part of the Democratic Alliance for Egypt during the 2011–12 parliamentary election.

In 2012, The EASP along with other parties, merged to become the Congress Party.