Member State of the Arab League The National Rally for Development (French: Rassemblement National pour le Développement, RND) was a political party in the Comoros.
The RND was established on 6 October 1996 as a merger of the National Union for Democracy in the Comoros, Maecha Bora, Realising Freedom's Capability, the Comorian Union for Progress and the Rally for Democracy and Renewal.
[1] The founding of the RND had been suggested by President Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim in August 1996 following his victory in the presidential elections earlier in the year.
Despite its landslide victory, the party began to suffer internal splits.
Prior to the 2004 parliamentary elections the RND joined the Camp of the Autonomous Islands alliance, which was opposed to Azali.