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Email Print Related News Egypt activist fears for revolution as economy stalls 2:27pm EDT Analysis & Opinion 4 Republican hopefuls in New Hampshire find tepid Tea Party turnout U.S. Supreme Court Justice Breyer on Twitter Related Topics World » Egypt » A man walks past electoral banners for Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) showing Egypt's President and head of the ruling NDP Hosni Mubarak (R), his son and NDP deputy head Gamal Mubarak (L) and NDP politician and candidate Ayman Salah Mekled (C) in Cairo in this November 22, 2010 file photo. The poster reads: ''The leadership and the future''. Credit: Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Files By Shaimaa Fayed and Patrick Werr CAIRO | Sat Apr 16, 2011 2:36pm EDT CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered the dissolution of former President Hosni Mubarak's political party, meeting a demand of the pro-democracy movement whose protests ended his 30-year authoritarian rule. The disbanding of the National Democratic Party (NDP) was likely to further appease protesters who had called off fresh demonstrations after the military council that now rules Egypt earlier this week ordered Mubarak detained for questioning about corruption allegations. The NDP had dominated Egyptian politics since it was founded by Mubarak's predecessor, Anwar Sadat, in 1978. For many in Egypt, it epitomised the graft and abuse of power that helped ignite the protests which forced Mubarak to quit in February. "It's illogical for any instruments of the regime to remain, now that the regime itself has fallen," the High Administrative Court said in a statement. The court also ordered the liquidation of NDP assets, with the funds to be returned to the state because, the statement said, "this money is actually the money of the people." Mubarak was admitted to a hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday, suffering from an unspecified ailment, shortly after he was questioned. On Friday, prosecutors ordered him to be moved to a military hospital until he was well enough to be interrogated again. Security sources said this was likely to happen on Saturday. Political analysts described the NDP's dissolution as an important step toward a multi-party system in Egypt, which is to elect a new parliament and then a president later this year. "All the central powers in Egypt of the Mubarak regime, all of them, were under the umbrella of the NDP," Nabil Abdel Fattah of the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies said. He said the party had a vast network extending into villages and city neighbourhoods that could be used to mobilize people in elections. "I think its infrastructure was very powerful," Abdel Fattah said. "The NDP also had huge money in banks, not just from membership fees, but I think also from businessmen who financed the NDP. The money came from many sources." SYMBOL OF A HATED REGIME Many of the party's senior officials have been arrested on graft and other charges and are now in Cairo's Torah prison. These include the former head of the upper house of parliament Safwat Sherif, who was the party's secretary-general, Mubarak's son Gamal, who was head of its policy secretariat, and steel magnate Ahmed Ezz, who headed its organization committee. Opposition leaders and protesters said Ezz had orchestrated last year's parliamentary elections, widely seen as the most fraudulent ever under Mubarak's rule, to ensure an NDP majority. Ezz denies this. Egypt's ex-prime minister, Ahmed Nazif, was also detained on April 10 for 15 days as part of investigations into squandering of public funds. He is being held in Torah prison. 1 2 Next World Egypt Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. 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