Rally of Progressive National Democrats

The RDNP was founded in 1979 by then exiled president Leslie Manigat.{{cite web|url= http://www.metropolehaiti.com/metropole/full_une_fr.php?id=15299|title= Le Rassemblement des Démocrates Nationaux Progressistes fête ses 30ans|publisher= MetropoleHaiti.com|date= 1 June 2009|language= French}} It was registered officially as political party on 25 May 1987, but only on 15 July 1987 was it recognized by the electoral authorities.{{cite web|url= http://www.haiticulture.ch/haiti_partis_politiques.html |title= Partis Politiques Enregistrés et Reconnus |publisher=HaitiCulture.ch |language= French}}

In the Haitian presidential election in 1988, Leslie Manigat wins with 50.2% of the popular vote and was elected president. In the parliamentary elections in 1990, RDNP elected only one seat in Senate. In Haitian presidential elections in February 2006, its candidate Leslie Manigat won 12.4% of the popular vote. In the 2006 Senate elections, the party picked up 10.7% of the popular vote, yet only 1 out of 30 Senators. In the 2006 Chamber of Deputies elections, the party won 4 out of 99 seats.{{Cite web|url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/51dd1b654.html|title = Refworld | Haiti: The Assembly of Progressive National Democrats (Rassemblement des démocrates nationaux progressistes, RDNP); political activities and organizational structure; regions of the country that its elected members represent; the socio-economic groups and geographic areas of Haiti that support it; treatment of its members by the authorities (2009-April 2013)}}

In the Haitian presidential elections of 28 November 2010, the RDNP presented as candidate Mirlande Manigat, wife of the RDNP's founder. She won the first round by carrying 31.37%, and in the second ballot with Michel Martelly, she lost with only 31.74%. However, in the Parliamentary elections, the RDNP lost the seat that it had in the Chamber.

In 2013, the party became a member of the Patriotic Movement of the Democratic Opposition (Mouvement Patriotique de l'Opposition Démocratique, MOPOD), a coalition of parties that oppose to President Michel Martelly.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yNGfBwAAQBAJ&q=political+handbook+haiti+mopod&pg=PT2571 |title=Political Handbook of the World 2015 |first=Tom |last=Landsford |date=2014|isbn=9781483371559 }}

In 2018, Eric Jean Baptiste was promoted as the new general secretary of the party.{{cite web |url=https://haiti.loopnews.com/index.php/content/eric-jean-baptiste-nouveau-secretaire-general-de-rdnp |website=haiti.loopnews.com |date=August 17, 2018|title=Eric Jean Baptiste, nouveau secrétaire général du RDNP

|access-date=4 October 2022}} Baptiste was later assassinated on the way to his home in the Laboule 12 area of Port-au-Prince on 28 October 2022, when his car was ambushed.[https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/29/americas/haiti-politician-killed-violence-intl/index.html Haitian politician shot dead, as violent gangs and political turmoil push country to the 'edge of collapse'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030110243/https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/29/americas/haiti-politician-killed-violence-intl/index.html|date=30 October 2022}}, CNN{{cite web |title=High-profile Haitian politician killed in apparent gang attack -reports |url=https://www.yahoo.com/now/high-profile-haitian-politician-killed-115816752.html |publisher=Yahoo!}}

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