[2][3] In April, at the Chamber of Deputies, de Magistris and the four deputies of ManifestA, held a joint conference to launch a coalition of parties opposed to the Russo-Ukrainian war and Mario Draghi's government for the next general election, initially scheduled to be held in 2023.

He also stated that the group would not join the centre-left coalition led by the Democratic Party.

[4][5][6] In July, De Magistris organised an assembly named "Towards the People's Union", which was attended also by PaP, the PRC, ManifestA and other groups.

[10] In the run-up of the 2024 European Parliament election some of the components of UP joined Peace Land Dignity, a pacifist electoral list proposed by journalist Michele Santoro, while others chose to support some individual candidacies in the Green and Left Alliance lists.

In March 2024 de Magistris, after refusing to stand as a candidate in the upcoming election, left UP's leadership altogether.