It was founded on November 7, 1900, by Diego Vicente Tejera (who had formed the Cuban Socialist Party the preceding year).
The People's Party sought to mobilize the working class of Cuba into political action.
[3] The government barred the party from contesting the 1901 elections by issuing a demand that it produce a register showing that it had 5,000 members in each of Cuba's major cities and 500 in several smaller towns.
[4] Needless to say, the party failed to produce such a register in such a short time-span and could not contest.
[4] Tejera denounced the action of the government as electoral fraud in an article in La Discusión on June 18, 1901.