The Wafd wins one hundred and seventy-nine…
January 1924 CE
Two seats each go to the Wafd's opponents, the National Party and the Liberal Constitutionalist Party, a party founded in 1922 and considered excessively cooperative with the British.
The Wafd feels it has a mandate to conclude a treaty with Britain that will assure Egypt complete independence.
Saad Zaghlu, as prime minister, carefully selects a cross-section of Egyptian society for his cabinet, which he calls the "People's Ministry."
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