The coalition was created in the leadup to the 2020 Venezuelan parliamentary election to bring together the political forces that support the Bolivarian Revolution, as begun by Hugo Chávez, and who also seek to demarcate themselves from governmental policy.

[2] The emergence of the Popular Revolutionary Alternative as a coalition coincided with a series of interventions by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice towards some of the left-wing parties in the Great Patriotic Pole, such as Tupamaro and Patria Para Todos.

[3][4][5] The Communist Party of Venezuela also denounced surveillance by the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service on their headquarters in Puerto Cabello.

[6] The parties that have formed the APR claim that the difficulties the Venezuelan economy is going through are due to the structural crisis of capitalism, intensified by the "economic asphyxiation of US imperialism.

"[7] The coalition denounces high costs of living, low salaries, and the rampant speculation & corruption in Venezuela currently, as well as opposing the adoption of unpopular measures by the "social-democratic" government that leads the PSUV.