[1] under the leadership of Ilaya Ismail Guedi Hared, a former cabinet director for President Hassan Gouled Aptidon.
The party's secretary general, Farah Ali Waberi, resigned in 2005 to protest the Union for Democratic Change's (UAD's) decision to boycott the 2005 Djiboutian presidential election.
The party opposed the 2010 amendment to the constitution that allowed Ismaïl Omar Guelleh to run for a third term.
Hared's niece, Zahra Guedi was elected to lead a UAD diaspora group in Paris in November 2013.
The UBJ was the sole exception, and besides Guelleh's Union for the Presidential Majority, was the only party to contest the election.