The party was established in January 1993 as the Congress of Intellectuals, a breakaway from the Christian Democratic Popular Front (FPCD).
[1] Prior to the 1994 elections, it joined the Bloc of Peasants and Intellectuals, alongside the Alliance of Free Peasants (AȚL), the Democratic Christian League of the Women of Moldova (LDCFM), the Christian Democratic Party of Moldova (PDCM), and the National Liberal Party (PNL).
[2] The bloc received 9% of the vote, winning 11 of the 104 seats and becoming the third-largest faction in Parliament.
The PFD won 11 seats in the 1998 elections, emerging as the fourth-largest bloc in Parliament.
Following its electoral defeat, it merged into the Social Liberal Party after a vote at its ninth congress on 1 December 2002.