[1] The party advocates social justice, electoral reform and economic sustainability.
[2] The party supports the Colombian peace process and formed the electoral alliance Coalition Colombia with centrist and center-left parties such as Civic Compromise to present a single presidential candidate, Sergio Fajardo in the 2018 presidential election.
[3] The party was founded on November 25, 2005, in Bogotá by a group of people headed by Carlos Ramón González Merchan and Elías Pineda.
[citation needed] For the 28 October 2007 Colombian regional elections to elect department governors, department assembly deputies, mayors and councils and Local Administrative Juntas the party surprisingly won the governorships of Cesar with candidate Cristian Moreno Panezo and Boyacá with candidate José Roso Millán.
[citation needed] On May 30, 2010, the party's candidate Antanas Mockus came second in the first round of the 2010 presidential election with 21% of the vote.