[4][5][6][7] KOTA advocated an indirect electoral system, in which each tribe could elect a chief from among the men of a lineage.

Most foreign observers are of the opinion that KOTA never had a chance to win popular support, only journalist Bill Nichol believed that they could certainly have won the majority with these ideas if they did not describe themselves as so incompetently portrayed and given airtime on the radio.

[2][7] José Martins was an Indonesian contact, and KOTA's pro-integration stance was used to legitimize its larger neighbor in the invasion of East Timor.

Leão Pedro dos Reis Amaral was the official successor to the late José Martins.

[1][4] Party spokesman was in again independent East Timor João Francisco dos Reis Amaral.

[4] The KOTA now wanted to promote Timorese culture and traditions in connection with universal human rights, and strived for a stronger political and social role for the Liurais.

[5] Whilst the party holds conservative beliefs in the cultural sphere, it is leaning left on social policy, implemented in 2017.

The party had contacts in Macau, Australia and with Dom Duarte, the Duke of Braganza and the direct descendant of the last king of Portugal.

[1][4] Secretary General Manuel Tilman named unification with the western part of the island as his project, since they were one nation, albeit not at that point in time.

The internal power struggles escalated when Secretary General Tilman attempted to bring the party into an alliance with FRETILIN.

Ramalho accused Tilman of misusing party funds and never attending Central Committee meetings.

After all, he received the most votes in seven sucos in Ainaro thanks to the support of Jacob Xavier and his Partido do Povo de Timor (PPT).

[14] For the first post-independence parliamentary elections on June 30, 2007, KOTA drew up a joint electoral list with the PPT under the name Aliança Democratica KOTA/PPT .

[15] Manuel Tilman from the KOTA and Jacob Xavier from the PPT then moved into the national parliament of East Timor with 65 MPs for the alliance.