{{Politics of Comoros}}
The '''National Rally for Development''' ({{langx|fr|Rassemblement National pour le Développement}}, RND) was a political party in the [[Comoros]].
==History== The RND was established on 6 October 1996 as a merger of the [[National Union for Democracy in the Comoros]], [[Maecha Bora]], [[Realising Freedom's Capability]], the [[Comorian Union for Progress]] and the [[Rally for Democracy and Renewal]].<ref>[http://www.africaintelligence.fr/ION/politics/1996/10/12/constitutional-referendum,39722-ART Comoros islands: Constitutional referendum] African Intelligence, 12 October 1996</ref> The founding of the RND had been suggested by President [[Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim]] in August 1996 following his victory in the [[1996 Comorian presidential election|presidential elections]] earlier in the year.<ref name=TL>Tom Lansford (2015) ''Political Handbook of the World 2015'', CQ Press</ref>
The party won 36 of the 43 seats in the [[Assembly of the Union of the Comoros|Assembly of the Union]] in the [[1996 Comorian parliamentary election|December 1996 parliamentary elections]], although the elections were boycotted by most opposition parties.
Despite its landslide victory, the party began to suffer internal splits. Following the [[1999 Comorian coup d'état|1999 coup]] one faction supported the new regime headed by [[Azali Assoumani]], whilst another called for the reinstatement of temporary head of state [[Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde]].
In the [[2002 Comorian presidential election|2002 presidential elections]] [[Mtara Maécha]] stood as the RND–Renewal candidate, finishing fifth out of nine candidates with 8% of the vote, whilst Azali emerged victorious.
Prior to the [[2004 Comorian parliamentary election|2004 parliamentary elections]] the RND joined the [[Camp of the Autonomous Islands]] alliance, which was opposed to Azali. The alliance won 12 of the 18 elected seats and all 15 of the indirectly-elected seats
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{{Comorian political parties}}
[[Category:Defunct political parties in the Comoros]] [[Category:Political parties established in 1996]] [[Category:1996 establishments in the Comoros]] [[Category:Political parties disestablished in 2004]]