The Democratic National Rally (RND) is a liberal political party in Algeria which was founded in 1997 as an electoral vehicle for Liamine Zeroual amid the Algerian Civil War. In 1997, the party swept the parliamentary elections by winning 156/380 seats, making it the largest party in the country. Many scholars regarded the RND as the new "state party" during the civil war, as the socialist FLN party had been defeated by the Islamic Salvation Front at the 1992 elections. However, the FLN regained its place as the majority and ruling party once the Islamist insurgency had been pacified in 2002. The 2002 elections saw the FLN and the Islamist Movement for National Reform destroy the RND's majority, with the FLN winning 199 seats, the MRN winning 43 seats, and the RND winning a mere 47 seats, losing 109 seats (the Islamic democratic Movement of Society for Peace also suffered heavy losses). The RND remained a major party, achieving its best results since 1997 in 2017, when the RND won 97/462 seats in the People's National Assembly, making it the second-largest party after the FLN.
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