The Rally for Democracy and Progress ( ar, التجمع من أجل الديمقراطية والتقدم, french: Rassemblement pour la démocratie et le progrès) is a
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
, led by
Lol Mahamat Choua
Lol Mahamat Choua ( ar, لول محمد شوا; 15 June 1939 – 15 September 2019) was a Chadian politician who served as his country's head of state for four months in 1979. He was the President of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) p ...
.
The party was founded by Choua in December 1991 and was among the first batch of political parties to be legalized in March 1992.
[''Political Parties of the World'' (7th edition, 2009), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 114.]
In the
parliamentary election
A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
held on 21 April 2002, the party, allied to the ruling
Patriotic Salvation Movement
The Patriotic Salvation Movement ( ar, الحركة الوطنية للإنقاذ, french: Mouvement patriotique du salut, MPS) is the ruling political party in Chad.
History
After Idriss Déby, an army commander who participated in an uns ...
, won 12 out of 155 seats.
However, since the
2005 Chad constitutional referendum, which would allow President
Idriss Déby
Idriss Déby Itno ' (18 June 1952 – 20 April 2021) was a Chadian politician and military officer who was the president of Chad from 1990 until his death in 2021.
Déby was a member of the Bidayat clan of the Zaghawa ethnic group. A high-ranki ...
to eliminate presidential terms, the RDP has been part of the opposition.
References
Political parties in Chad
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