NAREP was established in March 2010 by
Elias Chipimo Jr. Chipimo was the party's presidential candidate in the
2011 general elections, finishing fifth in a field of ten candidates with 0.4% of the vote. In the
National Assembly elections the party received 0.2% of the vote and failed to win a seat. Chipimo ran again in the
2015 presidential by-election, finishing seventh out of the eleven candidates with 0.4% of the vote. In 2019, Chipimo retired from his position as leader of NAREP, and was replaced by
Muvi TV owner
Steven Nyirenda. In 2018, NAREP joined the Opposition Alliance, which later became the
UPND Alliance. before participating in the
2021 general election, where Steven Nyirenda finished fourteenth in a field of sixteen candidates with 0.04% of the vote. NAREP later rejoined the UPND Alliance, with party president Ezra Ngulube endorsing
Hakainde Hichilema of the
United Party for National Development for the presidency in the
2026 general election, indicating that NAREP will not field its own presidential candidate. ==References==