formation of an alliance between the PCT and the RDD was announced. The parties agreed to present a single candidate in the 2009 presidential election, and the RDD agreed to join the government if their joint candidate (presumed to be Denis Sassou Nguesso) won the election. 34 RDD candidates stood in the July–August 2012 parliamentary election, but the party did not win any seats in the National Assembly. Expressing unhappiness with its treatment by the PCT, especially with regard to the September 2014 local elections, the RDD announced that it was suspending its participation in the presidential majority (the broad coalition of parties supporting Sassou Nguesso) on 11 December 2014. References Political parties in the Republic of the Congo Political parties established in 1990 1990 establishments in the Republic of the Congo