It is considered a radical opposition party and is led by Ngarlejy Yorongar.
[3] Its candidate for the 20 May 2001 presidential election, Yorongar, was a prominent critic of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline.
Yorongar, along with fellow opposition leader Abderhamane Djesnebaye, was tortured, including by being beaten with iron bars.
[8] The FAR was the only major opposition party to not sign a 2007 agreement that provided for improved electoral organization ahead of the next parliamentary election.
Yorongar criticized the agreement as inadequate and said that there should instead be a dialogue involving the entire political scene, including rebels, the exiled opposition, and civil society, and that a credible election could not be conducted while a rebellion was taking place in part of the country.