Has political life in Egypt reached 'clinical death'?
While many new parties and alliances have formed in Egypt in the three years since President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, they have achieved limited success due to a focus on temporary issues and a lack of strategic goals.
It's difficult to identify the programs of the parties belonging to the "democratic" or "social peace" generations, because these are unknown parties. Yet, despite the lack of knowledge about them, there are 50 such parties and political movements in Egypt.
The weak popularity of these parties has pushed them to ally under the banner of the National Association for Change, to confront the Mubarak regime; the National Salvation Front (NSF), to confront the Morsi regime; or the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy and the Revolutionaries Front, to confront the current regime. However, even these alliances have little popularity or influence on citizens, and perhaps some of them have become mere decor, lacking any goal that is known by the general Egyptian public.
Al-Monitor tried to find out more about these alliances, including the features of their future programs and the reasons for their decline in influence.
The National Salvation Front
