{{short description|Political party in Algeria}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox political party | country = Algeria | name = Democratic National Rally | native_name = {{unbulletedlist|التجمع الوطني الديموقراطي}} | colorcode = {{party color|Democratic National Rally}} | logo = File:Democratic National Rally logo.png{{!}}class=skin-invert | logo_size = 150px | leader = | president = | secretary_general = Monder Bouden | chairperson = | spokesperson = | leader1_name = | leader2_name = | leader3_name = | foundation = 21 February 1997 | dissolution = | headquarters = Les Asphodèles 10, Ben Aknoun, Algiers | newspaper = | youth_wing = RND Youth | membership_year = | membership = | ideology = {{UBL|class=nowrap | Algerian nationalism | Populism | Liberal conservatism<ref name="Africa Elects">{{cite web |title=Algeria |url=https://africaelects.com/algeria/ |website=africaelects.com }}</ref> | Economic liberalism<ref>{{cite report |date=24 June 2002 |title=DIMINISHING RETURNS: ALGERIA'S 2002 LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS |url=https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/27363/b001_algeria_elections.pdf |publisher=International Crisis Group |page=6 |access-date=5 May 2020 |via=ETH Zurich |location=Algiers/Brussels |series=ICG Middle East Briefing |archive-date=2 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302042359/https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/27363/b001_algeria_elections.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Africa Elects" /> | '''1997–1999:''' | Pro-Zéroual<ref>{{Cite book |last=Esposito |first=John L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B2FmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT205 |title=Islam and Politics Around the World |last2=Shahin |first2=Emad El-Din |date=2018-08-01 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-090041-0 |page=205 |language=en |access-date=14 May 2024 |archive-date=14 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514221821/https://books.google.com/books?id=B2FmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT205 |url-status=live }}</ref> }} | position = Centre-right<ref name="Africa Elects" /> | national = | international = Centrist Democrat International<ref name="Africa Elects" /> | europarl = | colors = {{unbulletedlist|{{Color box|{{party color|Democratic National Rally}}|border=darkgray}} Blue|{{Color box|green|border=darkgray}} Green|{{Color box|red|border=darkgray}} Red}} | native_name_lang = ar | website = {{URL|http://rnd.dz}} | flag = | footnotes = | seats1_title = Council of the Nation | seats1 = {{Composition bar|21|144|hex={{party color|Democratic National Rally}}}} | seats2 = {{Composition bar|58|407|hex={{party color|Democratic National Rally}}}} | seats2_title = People's National Assembly | seats3 = {{Composition bar|527|2004|hex={{party color|Democratic National Rally}}}} | seats3_title = People's Provincial Assemblies | seats4 = {{Composition bar|451|1540|hex={{party color|Democratic National Rally}}}} | seats4_title = Municipalities | seats5 = {{Composition bar|6521|24876|hex={{party color|Democratic National Rally}}}} | seats5_title = People's Municipal Assemblies }} The '''Democratic National Rally''' ({{langx|ar|التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي|translit=al-Tajammuʻ al-Waṭanī al-Dīmuqrāṭī}}; {{Langx|fr|Rassemblement national démocratique}}, '''RND''') is a political party in Algeria. The party held its Second Congress on 15–17 May 2003.<ref>[http://www.rnd-dz.com/view_histo_fond.php?news_id=6 "RND - Historique"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207045331/http://www.rnd-dz.com/view_histo_fond.php?news_id=6 |date=7 February 2017 }}, RND website, 10 October 2006 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>
==History== The RND was founded on 21 February 1997 in the midst of the Algerian Civil War for supporters of Liamine Zéroual, former head of ground forces of the Algerian military who had been elected president less than two years earlier (16 November 1995).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Esposito |first=John L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B2FmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT205 |title=Islam and Politics Around the World |last2=Shahin |first2=Emad El-Din |date=2018-08-01 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-090041-0 |page=205 |language=en |access-date=14 May 2024 |archive-date=14 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514221821/https://books.google.com/books?id=B2FmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT205 |url-status=live }}</ref> Zéroual had run as an independent and won 60% of votes cast. In the Algerian Parliamentary elections held on 5 June 1997 the RND received more votes than any other party 156 out of 380 seats. In the next parliamentary elections five years later it came in third polling only 9.5% of the vote, winning 47 of 380 seats in the Algerian Parliament. In the 2007 election it obtained 10.33% of the vote and 61 seats out of the 389 seats. It is part of the '''presidential alliance''', a three party political alliance created in 2005, the other two parties being the former sole legal party, the National Liberation Front, and the Movement for the Society of Peace.
The Georgetown University Berkley Center describes the RND as having "replaced" the FLN as the Algerian "state party" temporarily for the 1995 and 1997 elections "after the FLN was defeated by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in the 1991–1992 national legislative elections". That election was canceled by a military coup and the civil war that followed killed as many 200,000 Algerians,<ref name=Ajami-2010>{{cite magazine|last1=Ajami|first1=Fouad|title=The Furrows of Algeria|magazine=New Republic|date=27 January 2010|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/the-furrows-algeria|access-date=4 June 2015|archive-date=4 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604184005/http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/the-furrows-algeria|url-status=live}}</ref> but once the Islamist insurgents were pacified to a large degree, the "FLN regained its place as the majority and ruling party".<ref name=BCFEPL>{{cite web|title=National Rally for Democracy (RND)|url=http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/organizations/national-rally-for-democracy-rnd|publisher=Berkley Center|access-date=14 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619041409/http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/organizations/national-rally-for-democracy-rnd|archive-date=19 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
RND Secretary-General Ahmed Ouyahia was appointed as prime minister on 23 June 2008.<ref>[http://www.rnd-dz.com/view_news.php?news_id=631&category_id=5 "Ahmed Ouyahia Secrétaire Général du RND Chef du Gouvernement"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080901212609/http://www.rnd-dz.com/view_news.php?news_id=631&category_id=5 |date=1 September 2008 }}, RND website, 24 June 2008 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>
== Electoral history ==
=== Presidential elections === {| class=wikitable style=text-align:center !Election !Candidate !'''Votes''' !'''%''' !Result |- |2004 |Abdelaziz Bouteflika |8,651,723 |84.99% |'''Elected''' {{Y}} |- |2019 |Azzedine Mihoubi |619,225 |7.28% |'''Lost''' {{N}} |}
=== People's National Assembly elections === {| class=wikitable style=text-align:center !Election !Leader !'''Votes''' !'''%''' !Seats !+/– !'''Position''' |- |1997 | rowspan="5" |Ahmed Ouyahia |3,533,434 |33.7% |{{Composition bar|156|380|hex={{party color|Democratic National Rally}}}} |{{increase}} 156 |{{increase}} 1st |- |2002 |610,461 |8.2% |{{Composition bar|47|389|hex={{party color|Democratic National Rally}}}} |{{decrease}} 109 |{{decrease}} 3rd |- |2007 |597,712 |10.44% |{{Composition bar|62|386|hex={{party color|Democratic National Rally}}}} |{{increase}} 15 |{{increase}} 2nd |- |2012 |524,057 |6.86% |{{Composition bar|68|462|hex={{party color|Democratic National Rally}}}} |{{increase}} 6 |{{steady}} 2nd |- |2017 |964,560 |14.91% |{{Composition bar|97|462|hex={{party color|Democratic National Rally}}}} |{{increase}} 32 |{{steady}} 2nd |- |2021 |{{ill|Tayeb Zitouni (1965)|fr}} |198,758 |4.31% |{{Composition bar|58|407|hex={{party color|Democratic National Rally}}}} |{{decrease}} 39 |{{decrease}} 3rd |}
== See also == *:Category:Democratic National Rally politicians
==References == {{Reflist}} {{Algerian political parties}}
Category:1997 establishments in Algeria Category:Liberal parties in Algeria Category:Political parties established in 1997 Category:Political parties in Algeria