National Rally for Democracy

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The National Rally for Democracy (In Arabic: التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي, French, Rassemblement National Démocratique, thus RND) is a political party in Algeria.

The leader of the party is the ex-Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia. In the 2002 elections it polled 9.5% of the vote, and got 47 of 380 seats in the Algerian Parliament (down from 156). In the 2007 elections it obtained 61 seats out of the 389 seats.

The RND is a member of a three party political alliance, called the presidential alliance, created in 2005, and comprising the parties known as Movement for the Society of Peace (formerly Hamas) and the former single legal party, National Liberation Front (FLN). It is loyal to the current President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

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