People's Rally for Progress

The People's Rally for Progress (Arabic: التجمع الشعبي من أجل التقدم; French: Rassemblement populaire pour le Progrès, RPP) is a political party in Djibouti.

Today it is led by President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and is in a coalition government with Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD) and other parties.

[2] It was declared the sole legal party in October 1981, retaining this status until multiparty politics was introduced in the September 1992 referendum.

[3] At the party congress held on 19–20 March 1997, Gouled Aptidon was re-elected as RPP President and a 125-member Central Committee was elected.

[5] On February 4, 1999, President Gouled Aptidon announced that he would retire at the time of the next election, and an extraordinary congress of the RPP, chose Guelleh as its presidential candidate.