had been long considered an opposition member, was selected as the new party chairman. Following his appointment, Sadat issued multiple statements declaring his intent on "cleaning" the party of its corrupt officials and party members and that the party name would be changed to the "New National Party" to reflect the party's new age. The party even declared that it would adopt the ideals and goals of the recent Egyptian revolution in its party platform. However, on 16 April 2011, the NDP was dissolved by court order and its assets were ordered to be handed over to the government. In the parliamentary elections that followed the revolution, some former members established new parties, popularly termed or "remnants" of the old regime. Former members of the party founded the Coalition of the People's Representatives, which was going to run for seats in the next parliamentary election; the members of the coalition instead formed a party called the We Are the People Party. The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters banned former NDP members from taking part in elections on 6 May 2014, though a member of a committee that was revising parliamentary laws (named Mahmoud Fawzy) stated that the law only bans those who are convicted of tax evasion and political corruption. The ruling barring former NDP members from taking part in elections was overturned by the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters on 14 July 2014. Ideology The ideology of the NDP was vague, with stated goals of both social justice, and market reform. The party ceased to be even a left-of-centre social-democratic party shortly after its formation, drifting to the right and becoming a centrist "catch-all/big tent" party of power for members whose ideologies came from all over the political spectrum. Despite this and its increasingly authoritarian bent, the NDP was a member of the Socialist International up until 31 January 2011, when the embattled party was ousted and expelled from the group. Electoral history Presidential elections People's Assembly of Egypt elections Shura Council elections References External links Official website (archived 1 September 2005) English version (archived 4 July 2007) 1978 establishments in Egypt 2011 disestablishments in Egypt Banned political parties in Egypt Defunct political parties in Egypt Egyptian nationalist parties Egyptian revolution of 2011 Former member parties of the Socialist International Organizations of the Arab Spring Organisations of the Egyptian Crisis (2011–2014) Parties of one-party systems Political parties disestablished in