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Talaat Sadat was the last president of the National Democratic Party (NDP), elected on April 11, 2011. He promised that the party could be reformed from within and changed its name to the New National Party. On April 16, however, an Egyptian court ruled to dissolve the party. After the NDP was abolished, Sadat became the president of the National Egypt Party in August 2011. Sadat’s party has been criticized by members of the Revolutionary Youth Coalition for including a number of former NDP members among its ranks.
During the Mubarak era, Talaat Sadat served as a parliamentary deputy representing the small al-Ahrar Party and was an outspoken critic of former President Mubarak and other NDP leaders such as Ahmed Ezz. A nephew of late President Anwar Sadat, Talaat Sadat had his parliamentary immunity revoked after he accused the armed forces of involvement in his uncle’s 1981 assassination during a media interview in October 2006. Sadat was sentenced to a year in prison after a quick military trial. Sadat returned to the parliament in late 2007, but his immunity was lifted again in March 2010 to allow for an investigation of accusations that he took a bribe to help a tourism agency gain a license.
