In September 2017, Salih announced that he was leaving the PUK and forming a new opposition party, the Coalition for Democracy and Justice which competed in the 2018 Iraqi parliamentary election.

[4] On September 19, 2018, Barham Salih left the party to rejoin the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which nominated him as a candidate for Iraq's Presidency.

[2] The party announced that it promotes religious coexistence, good governance, the consolidation of democracy and justice as well as the freedom of thought and expression.

The crisis dragged on, as in December 2023, conflict broke out between Qadir and the interim leadership opposing him, caused by questions over the second congress that the party was going to hold.

[10] In March 2024, the spokeswoman Şatîn Qeredaxî declared the party's support for the protests by public servants who hadn't been paid their salary for months.