The party is led by Kamchybek Tashiyev,[5] and has previously supported the ousted former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

In the Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election, 2010, the party said it would seek to restore Bakiyev to power, and claimed it was more popular than the interim government.

In the election, the party won a number of seats from its traditional southern bastion, though it barely passed the threshold in the capital and the Chuy region.

As a result, Ata-Zhurt was part of the governing coalition, with its MP Akhmatbek Keldibekov chosen as Speaker of Parliament.

[7] Among the party's parliamentary deputies are some individuals of non-Kyrgyz ancestry, including Ravshanbek Sabirov, the first Tajik to hold such a position, and Roman Shin.