Zakaria Azmi (Arabic: زكريا عزمي; born June 26 1938)[1] is the former chief of presidential staff in Egypt.
[2] Zakaria Azmi was the National Democratic Party's (NDP) deputy for el-Zeitoun district in eastern Cairo and chief of the presidential staff.
Azmi was one of the army officers who supported late Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat in his conflict with Nasserist rivals in 1971.
His overtly critical approach in People's Assembly debates led many observers to dub him "the representative of the NDP opposition wing in parliament".
Azmi spoke against the terms of US economic grants to Egypt, corruption in city councils and pollution in Cairo.