Due to domestic and international pressure as a result of the Second Liberian Civil War, Taylor stepped down as president in August 2003.

In October of that year, Taylor's successor, Moses Blah, and the members of the Legislature resigned and ceded power to the National Transitional Government of Liberia.

The main topic was the influence held by Jewel Howard-Taylor, who served in an official capacity as the party's "Standard Bearer."

[3] Additionally, she also organized a meeting to change the party's constitution, greatly enhancing her powers to basically rule the NPP by decree.

[10] In 2019 the CDC seriously considered removing Taylor from the office of vice president, with Mulbah Morlu, chairman of the Congress for Democratic Change suggesting she be replaced with the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Nathaniel McGill, however, backed off following backlash from the pro-Taylor NPP, namely chairwoman of the NPP's woman wing and Bong County superintendent Esther Walker, and the NPP Bong county chairman James Dorbor Sao and vice chairman for administration Paul Wheeler.

[3] The CDC has largely supported the attempted takeover of the party by Taylor's faction, with Weah's advisor on communications, Gabriel Nyenkan, arguing that the NPP should be grateful to the CDC for allowing them to participate in the government, and that the NPP as a stand alone political party "had become a striped frame of a vehicle and could bring nothing to the table."

The Liberian government, despite the supreme court ruling, has recognized Taylor's faction as the party leadership.

[1] Shortly after the "suspension" of Biney, Taylor organized members of the NPP Youth Council to protest for a war crimes trail for Prince Johnson while he was purportedly giving a sermon against Taylor which prompted the congregation to evacuate out of fear of a violent escalation.