JEEMA has been participating in Uganda’s electoral politics and has fielded candidates at the presidential, parliamentary and local council levels since 1996.

JEEMA places significant importance on civil rights and justice, as well as constitutionalism, and the party tends to be the most popular among the country's minority Muslim population.

[1] JEEMA defines itself as a "social justice and welfare party," and declines to label itself as capitalist, communist, or socialist.

JEEMA is in favour of free essential social services (like health and education) to all citizens, market regulation, and grassroots consultation.

[2] The party's only MP put forward a bill in March 2023 calling for the punishment of 10 years imprisonment for aggravated homosexuality.