The National Democratic Front (Arabic: الجبهة الوطنية الديمقراطية) was founded as an umbrella of various opposition movements in North Yemen on February 2, 1976 in Sana'a.
The five founding organisations of NDF were the Revolutionary Democratic Party of Yemen, Organisation of Yemeni Revolutionary Resistors, the Labour Party, the Popular Vanguard and the Popular Democratic Union.
[1] The remnants of the party became known as the National Democratic Front Party (Arabic: حزب الجبهة الوطنية الديمقراطية, Ḥizb al-Jabhat al-Wataniyah ad-Dīmuqrātiyah), which still operates and which participated among others in the 2003 Yemeni parliamentary election, where it failed to win a seat and got 0.12% of the vote.
[3] During the Yemeni Revolution, it issued a statement demanding elections to be held as planned on April 27, stressing its importance for political pluralism and the peaceful transfer of power.
On 19 April 2019, the new general secretary Nashwan Nusayr an-Nusayri called on the parties, forces and political organizations that oppose the "aggression", to continue their efforts and strengthen the unity of the "home front".