[2] Its main organ was the daily newspaper L'Essor – La Voix du Peuple, which had a circulation of 40,000.
[3] The party was founded by the CMLN military junta in order to provide the regime with political legitimacy.
Moussa Traoré announced the party's formation on 22 September 1975, with himself as general secretary.
The UDPM borrowed from Modibo Keïta's conception of democratic centralism and organized itself along the lines of Marxism–Leninism, although it never identified itself as a Marxist party.
Following a coup by Amadou Toumani Touré in 1991, the party was dissolved in the same year.