The KDM is currently aligned to the government as a partner, providing confidence and supply to the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) state ruling coalition led by Chief Minister Hajiji Noor.

KDM was founded as a political party on 28 January 2022 in Dewan Seri Antenom in the interior district of Tenom, Sabah.

He claimed WARISAN "had diverted from its original path of serving Sabah" by spreading wings to Peninsular Malaysia on 18 December 2021 and denied that his decision to leave was due to his ongoing court case over a charge of falsifying the letter from the office of Universiti Malaysia Sabah deputy vice-chancellor for system maintenance contract work at the university in 2014.

Hajiji also declared GRS a single political entity during the ceremony after receiving certificate of approval from RoS two days before on 11 March 2022 to register and legalise it.

On KDM, Peter also said the party would pay attention to holding road shows to register new voters and prepare for the next Malaysian general election.

The statement also came after PBS cautioned other GRS component parties to consider comprehensively and not to rush to accept any new partners into the coalition.