The party described itself as an "autonomist progressive movement" and particularly focuses on local and regional politics, including grassroots protests, environmental groups, Occitan cultural circles, and trade unions.

Its members are active in struggles for the keeping of local jobs, against wholesale tourist commercialization, against the nuclear power industry, and for the preservation of Occitania's natural environment.

The Occitan Party belongs to the Fédération Régions et Peuples Solidaires federation which brings together different regionalist and nationalist political movements in the French state.

[9][11] The party subscribes to socialist ideals, and argues that every Occitan worker "should be able to earn a wage directly linked to his work, almost independently of market conditions.

[1] It defines itself as an "autonomist progressive movement" and particularly focuses on local and regional politics, including grassroots protests, environmental groups, Occitan cultural circles, and trade unions.

Including radical demands such as national independence, the party also calls for gradual steps, such as recognition and protection for Occitan language and culture, and representation of Occitania in the French government.

The presence of the MRP also displays the diverse character of the Occitan regionalist movement, as there exists localist particuralism in regions such as Provence, Auvergnat and Gascon, who stress that Occitania should not be treated as unitary.