In these countries, political parties were, first and foremost, a forum for indigenous nationalists of various ideological hues and material interests, but bound together by the desire to rid their country of colonialist hegemony.
Given the political party climate in Egypt in general and the suspicion with which attempts to create alternative parties were viewed, in particular, the inception of the new party was certain to engender bitter animosity.
Political parties, he wrote, "should be based on sets of principles, for these principles live on and thrive in the life of the nation until they are no longer appropriate, at which point new sets of principles will take their place".
LiberalParty is the name of dozens of political parties around the world.
It usually designates a party that is ideologically liberal, meaning that they advocate individual rights and civil liberties, and sometimes left wing, meaning that they are egalitarian and believe in the redistribution of wealth from rich to poor.
However, there are also many LiberalParties which subscribe to classical liberalism and therefore support a mostly unregulated free market, or who are actually more conservative in nature than their opponents, or whose views are right wing, libertarian, or difficult to categorise.