In 2009, parliamentarians from PSD, PNL, and other parliamentary organizations left their political parties to support President Traian Băsescu.

PIN's president, Lavinia Șandru, became UNPR's vice-president but later resigned from the party citing its lack of support for her ecologist policies.

In 2012, the government led by independent Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu was dismissed by a motion of no confidence and, as such, the UNPR entered parliamentary opposition.

UNPR later formed with PSD, the Centre Left Alliance (ACS) which was included in the Social Liberal Union (USL).

He is an independent politician with close ties to the right-wing conservative former President of Romania, Traian Băsescu, who appointed him as leader of the Presidential Chancellery in March 2012.

In the Romanian Parliamentary elections of December 2012, the UNPR won in alliance (i.e. USL) with the PSD, PNL, and PC, 10 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 5 in the Senate.

[14] UNPR believes in a new political and economic order, based on consolidation of the market economy within an "active state" that protects citizens and human rights.

UNPR's platform also includes support for the decentralization of Romania[citation needed] and the introduction of mandatory military service for all Romanian citizens aged 18 to 35.