It held its founding congress on 27 June 2020, under a political manifesto in which they announce their commitment to an agreed referendum as the solution for the issue of Catalan independence.

[1] The origins of the party can be traced to "The Country of Tomorrow" think tank (Catalan: El Pais de Demà), launched on 21 September 2019 during the so-called "Poblet Meeting" attended by about 200 members from the PDeCAT's more moderate sectors to discuss the political future of the post-Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) and its drift towards unilateralism under former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont's National Call for the Republic (CNxR).

[2] Among those attending the Meeting were former PDeCAT coordinator-general Marta Pascal, party colleagues Carles Campuzano, Jordi Xuclà, Marta Pigem or Lluis Recoder, as well as members from other parties (Antoni Fernández Teixidó and Roger Montañola from Free (Lliures), Ramon Espadaler and Albert Batlle from United to Advance (Els Units)).

[13][14] The party aims at occupying the political and electoral space left by the dissolution of Convergence and Union (CiU), advocating for a catalanist, liberal, pro-European, moderate and bilateralist political project aimed at emulating the hegemonic success of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) in the Basque Country.

[6][7] Opposed to unilateralism, the party does not rule out the ultimate goal of Catalan independence, but taking as a priority the recovery of the trimmed 2006 Statute and the attaining of the highest possible levels of self-government.