Founder and President is Abílio Araújo, who was FRETILIN representative overseas during the Indonesian occupation until his dismissal in 1993.

[citation needed] Deputies were Aires Francisco Cabral and the sister of PNT President Aliança Araújo.

[2] In July 2007, the PNT joined five other parties that had also failed at the three percent hurdle in the parliamentary elections to form the Liga Democrática Progressiva LDP.

The LDP was intended to serve as a political platform outside of parliament for the parties, which were very different in terms of ideology and programme.

[4] Aliança Araújo competed with her Partido Timorense Democrático (PTD), founded in 2008, but failed to clear the three percent hurdle.