The party's programme listed its main positions as support for Chechen traditions, streamlining of government, and a "rational" mixed economy.
It criticised Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev, accusing him of corruption, and led an October 1993 assembly of teips and ethnic minorities demanding an end to government pressure on the press and calling for new parliamentary elections.
The latter group demanded economic reforms, the removal of allegedly corrupt officials, and the appointment of petroleum executive Adam Albakov as Prime Minister of Ichkeria.
The party's ticket in the 1997 Chechen presidential election was headed by incumbent Prime Minister Aslan Maskhadov and field commander Vakha Arsanov.
By February 1999, the situation had reached a boiling point, as Islamist field commanders established their own government in opposition to that of Maskhadov and Arsanov.