The National Rally for Democracy (Arabic: التجمع الوطني الديمقراطي French: Rassemblement National Démocratique thus RND) is a political party in Algeria. It is led by former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia.The RND was founded on February 21 1997. The party held its Second Congress on May 15–17 2003.In the 2002 parliamentary election it polled 9.5% of the vote winning 47 of 380 seats in the Algerian Parliament (down from 156).