The Rally for Democracy and Progress (, ) is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

Chad Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...

, led by Lol Mahamat Choua. 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 an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. General elections ...

held on 21 April 2002, the party, allied to the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement, 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 sixth List of heads of state of Chad, president of Chad from 1991 until his death in 2021 during the 2021 Northern Chad offensive, No ...

to eliminate presidential terms, the RDP has been part of the opposition.

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