It was founded in 2007 by Margarita Stolbizer as a split from the Radical Civic Union, in opposition to the UCR's endorsement of Roberto Lavagna's general election.

[18] In 2011, GEN joined the Broad Progressive Front (FAP) in support of the Socialist Party's Hermes Binner's presidential run.

[20] In the 2015 general election, Stolbizer herself was nominated to the presidency by the Broad Front UNEN's successor, Progresistas.

For the 2017 legislative election, the GEN joined forces with the peronist Renewal Front (FR) to form 1País.

[23] Stolbizer and the FR leader Sergio Massa's bid to the Senate was unsuccessful in their home province of Buenos Aires, placing third behind the Cambiemos and Citizen's Unity lists.