[5] In early 2021, Omtzigt wrote the manifesto A New Social Contract,[6] with ideas for the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), the party for which he served in the House of Representatives at the time.

[9] After the 2023 Dutch general election was announced following the fall of the fourth Rutte cabinet, Omtzigt founded New Social Contract (NSC) on 19 August 2023.

[12] Former VVD hopeful Onno Aerden was introduced as the party's spokesperson on 12 September 2023, but he stepped down a few hours later when a tweet resurfaced in which he had referred to the Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) as "a tumor that destroys the fragile democracy from within".

[13] On 2 October, NSC announced the resignation of its co-founder and inaugural chairman Hein Pieper, after the revelation of a past allegation of abuse of power.

Omtzigt had told during the campaign that NSC would be unwilling to form a coalition government with the PVV and Forum for Democracy (FvD), as he felt they did not meet the "basic conditions of the rule of law".

[10] Policies regarding good governance include the establishment of a constitutional court and instituting a regional electoral system similar to that of Sweden.

The party also supports limits and stricter quotas for the number of foreign students in the Netherlands and wants Dutch to be reinstated as the standard language of the university system, with exceptions for certain postgraduate degrees.

[36] In 2024, the NSC voted in favour of a motion tabled in the House of Representatives by the Reformed Political Party (SGP) to abolish the so-called “transgender law” which had been brought in under the previous Dutch government and would enable people under the age of 16 to legally change their gender without a verdict from a doctor.