Sayed El-Badawi

السيد البدوي

Party leader Unverified

Chairman of the New Wafd Party. Businessman and media owner; the Wafd has oscillated between coalition support of Sisi and nominal opposition.

Country: Egypt
Party: New Wafd Party
Role: Party leader

Inherited position

Until Sayed El-Badawi is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.

In Egypt (via New Wafd Party)

New Wafd Party's spider profile

New Wafd Party

Briefs about New Wafd Party

Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing New Wafd Party to other parties. 1 brief on file.

New Wafd Party vs. Freedom and Justice Party EG Egyptian political traditions, two centuries apart. The Wafd's liberal-nationalist legacy from the 1919 revolution against the Brotherhood's 2011 electoral vehicle. Both attempts at Egyptian political pluralism, both crushed by the same logic.

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

Speech Arabic 2026-04-02

Sayed El-Badawi (leader of the Wafd, Egypt's oldest liberal party) — symposium speech (per Al-Bawaba News, 2 Apr 2026): the "loyal opposition" stance — "the Wafd is a liberal party that believes in economic freedom, and when we find the state moving… on a path that achieves the public good, then we support that"; and that development needs an independent judiciary and a free press.

الوفد حزب ليبرالي يؤمن بالحرية الاقتصادية، وعندما نجد الدولة تسير من وجهة نظرنا في خط يحقق الصالح العام وقتها نكون مؤيدين لهذا الحق التنمية والإصلاح السياسي وجهان لعملة واحدة؛ فلكي تحدث التنمية لا بد من أن يكون لديك…

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How to cite

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In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Sayed El-Badawi [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sayed-el-badawi

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Sayed El-Badawi." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sayed-el-badawi.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-sayed-el-badawi,
  title     = {{Sayed El-Badawi}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sayed-el-badawi},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

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APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.