The party was formed as the Progressive Riojan Party (Spanish: Partido Riojano Progresista) on 6 December 1982[2] with the stated aim of occupying the progressive centre in La Rioja.
[3] Initially the party was led by Luis Javier Rodriguez Moroy,[3] a former MP in the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
Like Rodriguez, many members of the new party came from the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), the former governing coalition of Spain which disbanded in February 1983.
In elections to the Parliament of La Rioja, held every four years from 1983 onwards, the party has usually polled between 6% and 7% and won two deputies out of the thirty three seats available at each election until 2015 when it lost its seats.
[6] As of June 2016, the party is led by Fernando Gómez Herrainz.