 This faction then became the National Alliance for Democracy and Progress (ANDP), a new party featuring a slight alteration of the UNDP's name.Despite their creation of a new party, Moustapha and Tchiroma still legally contested Bello Bouba's leadership of the UNDP.Although Bello Bouba was re-elected to the National Assembly in the May 1997 parliamentary election, the UNDP performed poorly, losing many of its seats.