The party was established in 1993 after political parties were legalised. In the elections that year it received 19.1% of the vote and won five seats, making it the joint second largest party in the General Council.^[2] In the 1997 elections the party was reduced to two seats.^[2] Thereafter it ceased to contest elections.^[1] The party was given consultative membership of the Socialist International at its XXI congress in 1999.^[3]