[3] The party's most significant electoral victory was in the period following Ecuador's restoration of democracy in 1979, during the 1988 Ecuadorian general election, with founder Borja Cevallos as its presidential nominee.

As a result, the party nominated politician Raúl Baca Carbo, who had served as Minister of Social Welfare during the Cevallos administration, as their nominee for president.

Rodrigo Borja Cevallos was selected as the party's nominee for the 1998 Ecuadorian general election, where he came in third place and was eliminated in the first round.

For the October 2006 elections, it has entered into an alliance with the Ethics and Democracy Network (Red Etica y Democracia), to support the ticket formed by former Vice-President León Roldós, and Ramiro González, former Prefect of the Pichincha Canton.

[16] His pre-candidacy and nomination generated controversy within the party, as Rabascall was vice presidential nominee for the Correist Union for Hope ticket in the 2021 elections.

As a result of Rabascall's nomination, a group of party members have threatened legal action and to take the case to the Constitutional Court of Ecuador.