The New Wafd Party was established on February 4, 1978.
The party is headed by Mahmoud Abaza.

Goals:
The party presses for introducing political, economic and social reforms, promoting democracy, ensuring the basic freedoms and human rights and maintaining the national unity.

The party also calls for abolishing the emergency law, solving the unemployment and housing problems, upgrading the health services and developing the education system.

Platform:
The party platform calls for:
• Ensuring basic freedoms and enhancing democracy.
• Adoption of the Islamic Sharia'h as a main source of legislation.
• Independence of the Judiciary.
• Abolishing the emergency laws.
• Promoting ties with the Arab and Islamic countries.
• Developing the Egyptian-African relations.
• Solving the Palestinian cause.
• Enhancing the role of the private sector.
• Developing the public sector.
• Developing the production sector.
• Solving the housing problem.
• Developing the education system.

The party & presidential elections:
The party nominated its head, Dr. Noaman Gomaa, to run for Egypt's first contested presidential elections and trailed third in the polls.

The party & legislative elections:
*The party won six seats in Egypt's 2005 legislative elections.

*In the 2000 legislative polls, the party fielded some 238 candidates and won seven seats in the People's Assembly.