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The '''Rally for the Support of Democracy and Development''' ({{lang-fr|Rassemblement pour le soutien de la démocratie et du développement}}) is a [[political party]] in [[Togo]]. Its national president is [[Harry Olympio]].

In the [[Togolese parliamentary election, 2002|parliamentary election]] held on 27 October 2002, the RSDD won 3 out of 81 seats. The party led the first protests against the succession of President [[Gnassingbé Eyadéma]] by his son [[Faure Gnassingbé]] in February 2005.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4360569.stm "Togo opposition unity threatened"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113125812/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4360569.stm |date=2012-11-13 }}, BBC News, March 18, 2005.</ref> It supported Harry Olympio in the [[Togolese presidential election, 2005|presidential election]] of 24 April 2005, but he withdrew shortly before the election; he nevertheless won 0.55% of the vote.

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