Today, Egypt faces a new world, and challenges that are different than those faced in previous decades. When the National Democratic Party (NDP) was established in August 1978, its major challenges included regaining the occupied national territories, and completing the country's transformation from one-party rule to a system of political pluralism. When President Hosni Mubarak assumed the leadership of the Party in 1981, Egypt launched the process of economic reform, through the establishment of a much-needed modern infrastructure. Furthermore, Egypt started the transition from central planning to gradual economic liberalization, and moved ahead on the path toward democratic transformation.

Egypt faces new challenges with the end of the Cold War, and the subsequent demise of the bi-polar world order. These new challenges are of a different nature since they derive from the revolutionary advances in the field of Information Technology, from the spread of democratic values and human rights, and from the desire by all nations to build new economies based on human knowledge and economic trading blocks. These new challenges require new responses based on a new thinking that goes beyond ideological divisions and rigid moulds. This new thinking perceives such challenges as an opportunity to achieve progress, rather than a constraint that will hinder its forward movement. The ability to evolve and develop, while staying true to its principles, is one of the most important features that characterize the National Democratic Party (NDP) in its effort to lead the citizens of Egypt into the future.

Thus, the NDP seeks to respond to the hopes and aspirations of the average Egyptian citizen, across all sectors of society, within a framework of contemporary vision and new thinking.

• NDP parliamentary authority, committee
• NDP Principles
• Nomination for elections