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SD flag Sudan Party leader

Sadiq al-Mahdi

الصادق المهدي
Party leader Inactive Unverified

Leader of the National Umma Party until his death in 2020. Sudan's last democratically elected Prime Minister (1986-1989), overthrown by Bashir's 1989 coup.

Country
Sudan
Party
National Umma Party
Role
Party leader
Status
Historical figure

Inherited position

Until Sadiq al-Mahdi 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 Sudan (via National Umma Party)
-10 -10 -5 -5 5 5 10 10 Libertarian · Statist Libertarian · Market Authority · Statist Authority · Market 1 parties 2 parties ← Statist Market → Libertarian ↑ ↓ Authority Social ↕ Economic ↔ Sudanese Communist Party (SD) · Economic -8.0, Social +6.0 SD Sudanese Communist Party Democratic Unionist Party (SD) · Economic +2.5, Social -4.0 SD Democratic Unionist Party National Umma Party (SD) · Economic +2.0, Social -3.0 SD National Umma Party
National Umma Party's spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press
National Umma Party

Source documents

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

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Sadiq al-Mahdi [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sadiq-al-mahdi
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Sadiq al-Mahdi." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sadiq-al-mahdi.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-sadiq-al-mahdi,
  title     = {{Sadiq al-Mahdi}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sadiq-al-mahdi},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

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.