It first contested national elections in 1974,[1] when it provided the main opposition to the ruling Reformist Party due to the Dominican Revolutionary Party not contesting the elections.
Its candidate, Luis Homero Lajara Burgos, received 15% of the vote in the presidential election, whilst the party won three seats in the House of Representatives.
Lajara Burgos received only 0.4% of the vote in the presidential election, whilst the party lost all three seats in the House of Representatives after a similar result in the Congressional elections.
In 1994 it formed an alliance with the Social Christian Reformist Party.
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