DRP subsequently submitted its registration on 21 July 2005 and was the second registered political party in the Republic of Maldives.

In early 2023, the Elections Commission (EC) issued a decision to dissolve the DRP, as the party failed to maintain a minimum of 3,000 members as mandated by law.

It was a point where DRP had a huge debt following the defeat in the 2008 Presidential Elections with Ahmed Thasmeen Ali as the running mate of Gayyoom.

Once Gayyoom left, the party was led by Ahmed Thasmeen Ali who had to face the inherited debt of Rf. 32,000,000.

The logo was inspired from a verse of a poem by Muhammad Jameel Didi who was a famous poet and a political figure of the Maldives.