Rally for Culture and Democracy
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| President | Mohcine Belabbas |
| Founder | Saïd Sadi |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Split from | Socialist Forces Front |
| Headquarters | Algiers, Algiers Province, Algeria |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Social liberalism Berberism Algerianism Secularism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
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| http://www.rcd-algerie.org/ | |
The Rally for Culture and Democracy (Berber: Agraw i Yidles d Tugdut; Arabic: التجمع من أجل الثقافة والديمقراطية; French: Rassemblement pour la Culture et la Démocratie RCD) is a political party in Algeria. It promotes secularism (Laïcité) and has its principal power base in Kabylie, a major Berber-speaking region. Some consider it to take the position of a liberal party for the Berber-speaking population in Algerian politics.
The Rally for Culture and Democracy was founded by Saïd Sadi in 1989. He was a presidential candidate in 1995, winning 9.3 percent of the popular vote.
In 1997, the party won 19 of 390 seats. The RCD boycotted the 2002 elections. Saïd Sadi was a candidate again in the 2004 presidential election and won 1.9 percent of the vote. The party participated in the 2007 elections, winning 3.36% of the vote and 19 seats.
In the 2007 legislative election, support for the RCD was higher than its national average (3.36%) in the following provinces:
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