Gaston Tong Sang was the party's presidential candidate in the election of March 2005, but was defeated by Oscar Temaru by 29 votes to 26.

[5] In September 2014 Flosse was convicted of corruption and removed from office,[6] and Édouard Fritch succeeded him as president.

[7] A subsequent dispute between Fritch and Flosse[8] and a series of expulsions[9] saw the party split in May 2015, with 15 MPs leaving to form Tapura Huiraatira.

[11][12][13] At the 2017 French presidential election the party endorsed National Front candidate Marine Le Pen.

[14] Flosse attempted to stand at the 2018 territorial elections but was ruled ineligible by the courts,[15] and he did not appear on the party list.

The party supports a referendum with the objective of making French Polynesia an associated state of France as a way of obtaining independence for the Maohi people.