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Republican Alliance for Democracy

opposition political party in Djibouti

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7314569 ↗
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The Republican Alliance for Democracy (French: Alliance Républicaine pour la Démocratie, Arabic: التحالف الجمهوري من أجل الديمقراطية) is an opposition political party in Djibouti, founded by Ahmed Dini Ahmed. In the parliamentary election held on 10 January 2003, the party was part of the Union for a Democratic Change (Union pour l'Alternance Démocratique), which won 37.3% of the popular vote but no seats in the National Assembly.

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This entry incorporates text from “Republican Alliance for Democracy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.