[10] The objective of the organization was "to form a new Christian-democratic, responsible, patriotic-oriented social and political elite of the country through the creation of conditions for the development, improvement and implementation of youth".

[3] Early September 2014, it was established that the party would participate in the 2014 parliamentary election on the partly list of Civil Position.

[22][23] In August 2016 high-profile Ukrainian MPs Svitlana Zalishchuk, Serhiy Leshchenko and Mustafa Nayyem from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc joined to Democratic Alliance.

[24] From Autumn 2015 until June 2016 they and the leadership of Democratic Alliance had been part of an attempt to form a political party around then Governor of Odesa Oblast Mikheil Saakashvili with members of the parliamentary group Interfactional Union "Eurooptimists", Democratic Alliance and possibly Self Reliance until this projection collapsed in June 2016.

[25] On 9 October 2018, Democratic Alliance and Self Reliance announced they would support Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi as their joint candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.

[31] The party opposes same-sex marriages as Gatsko explained "Our position is that family is made up of a man and a woman".