Rally for Democracy and Progress (Niger)

The Alliance for Democracy and Progress ( French: Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et le Progres - Jama'a, symbol: RDP - Jama'a ) is a political party in Niger.

History

The Alliance for Democracy and Progress was written in August 1997 as a successor party, the National Union of Independents for Democratic Renewal ( UNIRD ), the party of President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, who had come in 1996 by a coup d'etat. Hamid Algabid was party leader, Amadou Cissé deputy party chairman and Abdoul Ramane Seydou Secretary General of the RDP - Jama'a.

President Maïnassara died in 1999 in a coup d'état. The contention between Hamid Algabid and Amadou Cissé, who was to stand in the 1999 presidential elections for the RDP - Jama'a, a court ruled in favor Algabids. Cissé then split with a new party, the Union for Democracy and Republic ( UDR - Tabbath ), the RDP - Jama'a from. In the first round Hamid Algabid received 10.83 percent of the vote. In the runoff of Mahamadou Issoufou RDP - Jama'a supported by the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism ( PNDS - Tarayya ), Mamadou Tandja, however, the subject of the National Movement of the Development Society ( MNSD - Nassara ). In the parliamentary elections of 1999, the RDP - Jama'a received eight of 83 seats in the National Assembly. In the presidential election of 2004 Hamid Algabid could unite only 4.89 percent of the vote, but supported his party in the run- time Mamadou Tandja and was thus in the camp of the winner. The 2004 parliamentary elections brought the RDP - Jama'a six of 113 seats in the National Assembly. Abdoul Ramane Seydou was voted in 2008 as general secretary of the party. He was followed by Sani Abdourahmane in office. In the parliamentary elections of 2009, which were boycotted by the main opposition parties to protest against the authoritarian policies of President Tandja, the RDP - Jama'a could only slightly improve on seven out of 113 seats.

In the presidential elections of 2011 the party renounced its own candidate. Since the parliamentary elections of 2011, the RDP - Jama'a is also represented with seven out of 113 MPs in the National Assembly. The party joined in the same year with 32 other political parties and groups in an alliance together, which agreed on common principles and promised to support the government of President Mahamadou Issoufou in their projects.