[1] Ayéva ran as the PDR candidate in the June 1998 presidential election, taking fourth place with 3.02% of the vote according to official results.
On the same day, a residence belonging to Ayéva was ransacked by security forces.
[5] It participated in the October 2007 parliamentary election,[6] but did not win any seats.
[7] Ayéva has been accused of leading the party in an autocratic manner.
The resignations of many leading members of the party, including three—Tchassona-Traoré Mouhamed, Innoussa Nafiou, and Adam Abdou Rahamane—in September 2006, have been attributed to this alleged tendency.