Alparslan Türkeş became party president on 4 October 1987 with the lifting of the political ban on former politicians.

The Nationalist Task Party won 2.9% of the popular vote in 1987 general election,[1] and they won three municipalities (Elazığ, Erzincan, Yozgat) in the 1989 local elections.

So MÇP's and IDP's deputy candidates attended with Welfare Party lists.

This alliance won 16.9% vote and sent 62 MPs to the Turkish Grand National Assembly (which had a total of 550 seats).

All members joined the newly opened (and refounded) Nationalist Movement Party.