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| native_name_lang = ar| logo = File:Dignity Party logo.png| logo_size = 200pxDignity Party (Egypt)}}| chairman = | leader1_title = FoundersAmin Iskander|Hamdeen Sabahi}}Cairo| merged = Egyptian Popular Current| newspaper = 'Al-Karama' Newspaper| ideology = NasserismLeft-wing politics>Left-wingCivil Democratic Movement (2017)>Civil Democratic MovementHTTP://ENGLISH.AHRAM.ORG.EG/NEWSCONTENT/1/1187/289073/EGYPT/-PRESIDENTIAL-ELECTIONS--/EIGHT-LIBERAL-AND-LEFTIST-EGYPTIAN-PARTIES-TO-BOYC.ASPX>TITLE=EIGHT LIBERAL AND LEFTIST EGYPTIAN PARTIES TO BOYCOTT 2018 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONSDATE=30 JANUARY 2018National Front Alliance (Egypt)>National Front AllianceHTTP://WWW.YOUM7.COM/STORY/2015/8/4/%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9--%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%81%D9%82%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9/2291289>TITLE=تحالف الجبهة الوطنية: الاحزاب اتفقت على وثيقتنا السياسيةDATE=4 AUGUST 2015, 4 August 2015, {{party color|Dignity Party (Egypt)}}}} GreenHouse of Representatives (Egypt)>House of Representatives0hex={{party color|Dignity Party (Egypt)}}}}| website = | country = Egypt}}The Dignity Party () is an Egyptian left-wing Nasserist political party founded in 1996 by Amin Iskander and Hamdeen Sabahi.WEB,weblink Al-Karama (Dignity Party), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Endowment, 16 December 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131029213534weblink">weblink 29 October 2013, The party first gained Parliamentary seats in the 2005 Egyptian Parliamentary election. And in 2011, the party joined the Democratic Alliance for Egypt, which won a Majority of seats in that election. later in May 2012, The Party's leader and presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi, came in third in that year's election, but couldn't make it to the runoff election in june.In late 2012, Hamdeen Sabahi, The party's Chairman by that time, left the party to form the Egyptian Popular Current. Many Dignity party members left to join Sabahi's new party.In March 2016, the Popular Current Party merged into the Dignity Party.WEB,weblink Egyptian leftist Sabahy eyes united opposition to challenge Sisi, Reuters, 10 March 2016, Ahmed Tantawi was elected chairman of the party on 25 December 2020, replacing Mohamed Samy.WEB,weblink Dissenting MPs in Egypt: A New Parliament Without Opposition?, AbdelHalim, Ahmed, 19 April 2021, 3 October 2023, LSE Middle East Centre Blog, Tantawi left the position in July 2022.WEB,weblink استقالة الطنطاوي من رئاسة «الكرامة».. ومصادر: معترض على المشاركة في الحوار الوطني لعدم جدية السلطة, Mada Masr, 17 July 2022, 3 October 2023,

Electoral history

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!Election !Party candidate!Votes!%!Result2012 Egyptian presidential election>2012Hamdeen Sabahi|4,820,273 |20.72%|Lost {{N}}

House of Representatives {| class"wikitable" styletext-align:center

! rowspan="2" | Election! colspan="2" | Seats! rowspan="2"| Government! Seats ! +/-2005 Egyptian parliamentary election>20052{{party color|Dignity Party (Egypt)}}}}|{{increase}} 2Opposition}}2010 Egyptian parliamentary election>20100{{party color|Dignity Party (Egypt)}}}}|{{decrease}} 2|N/A2011-2012 Egyptian parliamentary election>20116{{party color|Dignity Party (Egypt)}}}}|{{increase}} 6As part of Democratic Alliance for Egypt}}2015 Egyptian parliamentary election>20150{{party color|Dignity Party (Egypt)}}}}|{{decrease}} 6|N/A2020 Egyptian parliamentary election>20200{{party color|Dignity Party (Egypt)}}}}|{{steady}}|N/A

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