[1] It is led by Nicéphore Soglo, who was President of Benin from 1991 to 1996 and later Mayor of Cotonou.
Rosine Vieyra Soglo established the party to provide political support for her husband, then-President Nicéphore Soglo, who lacked backing from Benin's political elite.
[2] It initially worked, as the Benin Rebirth Party won 20 of the 83 seats in the National Assembly in the 1995 Beninese parliamentary election.
[3] The elder Soglo could not run because of the constitutional age limit of 70 years for candidates.
In the March 2007 parliamentary election, the RB participated in the Alliance for a Dynamic Democracy,[4] which won a total of 20 seats.