How does the former regime’s political elite survive the revolution and the unfolding transformations of the political scene since 2013? In 2011, the dissolution of the National Democratic Party (NDP) profoundly disrupted the Egyptian political configuration. Since then, no party has replaced the former ruling party, and only loose coalitions have been formed around President El Sissi. The absence of a structured government party results in a high degree of friction and produces a strong sense of uncertainty among both “old” and “new” political actors. As for former NDP leaders, many regret the absence of a party in which they could find a favorable framework to resume their political transactions. The dissolution of the ruling party deprived them of their status and privileged access to public resources, reducing their ability to remain “in the game”. In this context, how do former NDP leaders continue to maintain their political and social positions when the party structure on which they built their careers disappeared? More precisely, how do they deal with the sometimes-embarrassing legacy of the former ruling party, in a regime that continuously asserts a clean break from the old regime and when many NDP figures are currently on trial? To what extent are former party leaders and representatives able to reinvent themselves as political actors, and to claim their own legacies and trajectories? Based on an ongoing research conducted in Cairo, I propose to study how former leaders fight processes of political and social downgrading and relegation post 2013. Based on a prosopography combining literature, press archives, politicians' memoirs and biographical interviews with former NDP leaders, I explore how the latter both maintain a confused nostalgia for the old regime (and the routines and stabilized frameworks of political action within the party) and relate to the promotion of "new politics” by the Sissi regime. More broadly, I analyze the concrete transformations of their political activities, in a context where the value of their political, social and economic resources has profoundly been affected. By studying their strategies of self-legitimization and reinvention, this research grasps together the ruptures and continuities within the ruling political elite, demonstrating how this group is composite, heterogeneous and dynamic, and characterized by “often imperceptible mobilities".