The party was formed in January 2019 upon the break-up of Civic Commitment (IC), an alike grouping which had obtained 7.5% of the vote and three regional councillors.

[3] Two of them, Alberto Bertin (a former member of Autonomy Liberty Participation Ecology)[4] and Chiara Minelli, departed from IC and launched RC.

[8][9] In the 2020 regional election, the RC was part of a centre-left joint list, named Progressive Civic Project (PCP), comprising the Democratic Party (PD) and Green Europe (EV).

[10][11][12][13][14] Within a year, the RC-led PCP broke with the government and the PD: five councillors, including Bertin, sided with the PD and formed a new group named also "Progressive Federalists" in October 2021,[15][16][17] while the remaining two, Erika Guichardaz and Minelli, who had resigned from regional minister in May,[18] re-organised the PCP as the union of three groups — RC, EV and Democratic Area–Autonomist Left (AD–GA) —, and re-branded it as a left-wing opposition to the regionalist/centre-left government.

[20] In the general election, RC and PCP supported Guichardaz to the Chamber and Daria Pulz to the Senate, along with the Five Star Movement, AD–GA, Environment Rights Equality (ADU; another splitter of Civic Commitment) and Italian Left (SI),[21][22] the latter two already united by a federative pact.