The inability of UNITA to influence the domestic political agenda, coupled with its negative reputation earned during years of bloody civil war, has raised the hopes of Angola's other opposition parties that they can increase their influence. The fifth-largest parliamentary party, Nova Democracia-União Eleitoral (ND-UE), which has two seats in the National Assembly, is expanding its electoral alliances and seeking to absorb a host of smaller parties that were dissolved following a ruling in February 2009 by the Constitutional Court that dissolved all parties that polled less than 0.5% of the national vote in the 2008 elections. For its part, UNITA is continuing with its own opposition alliance-Bloco Democrático-which includes the Partido Democrático para o Progresso-Aliança Nacional Angolana (PDP-ANA). Given UNITA's weak prospects in the 2012 legislative elections, the party will need to focus on the first municipal elections, which could take place during the next two years, to rebuild its presence nationally.