Mohamed Anwar Esmat Sadat (محمد أنور عصمت السادات; born 1955) is an

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

ian politician. He was a member of the Egyptian Parliament during the rule of

Hosni Mubarak Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in ...

. He is related to two prominent Egyptian politicians, as the nephew of

Anwar Sadat Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat, (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 ...

and brother of Talaat Sadat. He won a seat during the

2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt from 28 November 2011 to 11 January 2012, following the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, after which the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) dissolved Parliament. However the diss ...

for the second constituency (Fardi)

Monufia Governorate Monufia Governorate ( ar, محافظة المنوفية ' ) is one of the governorates of Egypt. It is located in the northern part of the country in the Nile Delta, to the south of Gharbia Governorate and to the north of Cairo. The governora ...

and is the founder of the Reform and Development Party along with

Raymond Lakah Raymond Lakah, (born c. 1960 as Rami Lakah) (رامي لكح), is a French- Egyptian magnate, and former owner of the French newspaper ''France Soir''. Lakah was born in Egypt to a Coptic Christian Egyptian family, and first came to prominence ...

. He participated actively in Egyptian politics, and in 2005 he was elected to the Egyptian People's Assembly (Parliament) where he was a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and the People's Assembly Economic Committee. He was also an active member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA). He participated in several international political, economic and social organizations, conferences and workshops in

, the

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and

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. He wrote for several Egyptian newspapers with private and political interests on development issues in Egypt. He was involved in the establishment of the Sadat Organization for Development and Social Care, and serves currently as its president. In 2006, Al-Sadat submitted a motion in parliament and demanded an investigation into the activities of the Mubarak aide and Member of Parliament

Zakaria Azmi Zakaria Azmi ( ar, زكريا عزمي; born June 26 1938) is the former chief of presidential staff in Egypt. Zakaria Azmi was the National Democratic Party's (NDP) deputy for el-Zeitoun district in eastern Cairo and chief of the presidential s ...

for corruption allegations. Azmi was sentenced to jail in May 2012. In 2007, he was kicked out of Parliament after declaring bankruptcy. On 27 February 2017, he was kicked out of the parliament again after criticizing Egypt's human rights record. He allegedly “belittled” the Egyptian parliament in correspondence with foreign associations and was accused of falsifying lawmakers' signatures on a draft bill. He intended to run in the

2018 Egyptian Presidential Election Presidential elections were held in Egypt between 26 and 28 March 2018, though Egyptians abroad voted from 16 to 18 March 2018. On 19 January, incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi formally announced he would run for a second and final term. ...

but later withdrew saying that the conditions were not democratic enough for him to run. He could not find a hotel to launch his campaign.

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