Despite the good result, the party, however, did not reach a quorum in any constituency and so didn't get any seats in Parliament.

On the occasion of the 1987 general elections, the party struck an electoral agreement with the Venetian League.

Also on this occasion the party failed to elect its members to parliament by about 1,200 votes.

After the electoral defeat, the national deputy secretary of the party Carlo Fatuzzo, the provincial secretary of Milan Roberto Bernardelli, as well as the former party president Alberto Marconi (already expelled from the PNP shortly before the elections), accused Facchinetti of having received money from the Italian Socialist Party without informing the party directorate, as well as of having carried out electoral negotiations without consulting the electoral committee.

[6] In 1990 the new secretary Giuseppe Polini merged the PNP with numerous associations for the defence of pensioners in the new movement Pensioners Alive (Pensionati Vivi).