[13] Later the party's National Convention adopted the new naming in March 2019,[14] and it was later approved by the Superior Electoral Court that September.

The same year, PPS withdrew from the Foro de São Paulo, denouncing its support for the governments of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Fidel Castro in Cuba.

In the presidential election, the PPS endorsed Geraldo Alckmin of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB).

It supported the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016[20] and formed a coalition with the provisional government with the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) and the PSDB, under the rule of Michel Temer.

The party acquired a more liberal and less left-leaning ideology, occupying a more centrist position in the Brazilian political scenario.

[22] For the Brazilian general elections of 2018 PPS joined the coalition To unite Brazil, in support of the candidacy of Geraldo Alckmin.

[24] In an interview of 17 July 2019 party leader Roberto Freire said that Citizenship is in opposition to President Jair Bolsonaro,[25] starting a process of his impeachment,[26] although they had 83% alignment with the government in the congress.