[4][5] For the 1988 federal elections, the PFCRN joined the National Democratic Front, nominating Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano as a candidate for the Presidency.

Among the parties that supported the candidacy of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the PFCRN was the one that capitalized on the greatest number of votes (9.37%) and managed to earn 38 seats in the chamber of deputies in the coalition National Democratic Front.

This had the consequence that its candidates occupied the majority of the deputies that were recognized to the left alliance at that time LIV Legislature.

Three years later In 1997, the PFCRN attempted to restructure its image by adopting a simpler name, the Cardenista Party (PC) (Spanish: Partido Cardenista; PC) In that year, the PFCRN participated in the first elections for Head of Government of the Federal District and nominating the well-known journalist, Pedro Ferriz Santa Cruz as candidate.

After another electoral failure in the 1997 Mexican legislative election after it failed to secure 2.0% of the total votes, the Cardenista Party lost its registration definitively and dissolved later that year.