[16] On 21 April, twenty-five of the party's former deputies formed a new parliamentary group called "Platform for Life and Peace" (Ukrainian: Платформа за життя та мир).

[22][23][24] In July 2016, former members of Opposition Bloc Vadim Rabinovich and Yevhen Murayev[25] reconstituted the party under the name For Life.

[30] According to Ukrayinska Pravda, the negotiations on the unification of the parties For Life and Opposition Bloc started in the summer of 2018.

In early November 2018, the Opposition Bloc members loyal to Akhmetov decided to take pause the negotiations.

[32][33][34] Medvedchuk was also leader of the Ukrainian Choice NGO, a socially conservative pro-Russian political group and partially prohibited in Ukraine as openly anti-Ukrainian.

[36][37] The same day, Opposition Bloc leading members Vadym Novynskyi and Borys Kolesnikov claimed the agreement was a "personal initiative" of Boyko and that the party had not taken any decisions on cooperation with For Life.

[37][39] The same day, Opposition Platform – For Life nominated Boyko as its candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.

[43][30] Hence on 17 January 2019 Boyko submitted documents to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine for registration as a self-nominated candidate.

[48] In the October 2020 Ukrainian local elections Opposition Platform – For Life took third place with 11.75% of all votes being cast to the party.

[54] Konstantyn Pavlov [de; uk; ru] from the OPFL won the election for mayor of Kryvyi Rih.

[55][56] On 3 July 2020, a grenade was thrown into the party's office in Poltava, and one person was injured as a result of the explosion.

[63] On this day party member Illia Kyva expressed support for the invasion and blamed the war on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and urged him to resign.

[69][14] At the 24 March 2022 parliamentary sitting five MPs announced their resignation from the Opposition Platform – For Life faction.

[70] On 26 March 2022, the faction Opposition Platform – For Life in the Odesa Oblast Council ceased to exist.

[16] On 21 April 2022, the Opposition Platform – For Life deputies in Ukraine's national parliament formed a new parliamentary group.

[17] The group was named "Platform for Life and Peace" (Ukrainian: Платформа за життя та мир) and headed by Boyko and consisted of 25 MPs.

The party was decisively position on the left economically, but includes both conservative and liberal policies in its sociocultural outlook.

[75] Other positions set out in its electoral programme include granting "autonomous status to Donbas as an integral part of Ukraine" by amending the Constitution and laws of Ukraine; the right to speak, communicate, study in Russian; decentralisation of governance; stronger mechanisms against corrupt politicians; "an end to deindustrialization, degradation and deintellectualization"; a stronger social state; constitutional amendment to ensure neutrality; and "revision of the bondage conditions" of Ukraine's participation in the World Trade Organization; and a free trade agreement with the European Union.

[76] At a conciliation council among leaders of parliamentary factions on 17 February 2020, Vadim Rabinovych urged the sending of a Ukrainian delegation to participate in the 9 May victory parade in Moscow and started to sing the Soviet song "The Sacred War" ("Rise Up, the Mighty Country).