Politics portal The Authenticity Party (Arabic: حزب الأصالة, ḥizb el-asala) is one of the political parties created in Egypt after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.
It has an ultra-conservative Islamist Salafist ideology, which believes in implementing strict Sharia law.
The Islamist Bloc gained 127 of the 498 parliamentary seats contested, second-place after the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party.
[7] The Authenticity Party is one of the eleven Islamic parties targeted by a lawsuit in November 2014, when an organization named Popular Front for opposing the Brotherhoodization of Egypt sought to dissolve all political parties established "on a religious basis.
"[8] The Alexandria Urgent Matters Court however ruled on 26 November 2014 that it lacked jurisdiction.