Is crisis looming within Egypt's oldest political party?
Is the Wafd Party's decision to sack former party leader Al-Sayyid al-Badawi Shehata orchestrated by the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi?
CAIRO — The Higher Committee of the Wafd Party, headed by legal adviser Bahaa Abu Shaqqa, decided Sept. 2 to formally suspend the membership of former party leader Al-Sayyid al-Badawi Shehata.
The liberal Wafd Party is one of the oldest Egyptian parties that was founded in 1918 and was the majority party before the revolution of July 23, 1952, which ended the reign of the monarchy and turned the country into a republican system.
