The party was founded by Jackou on 2 February 1997 following his 1996 expulsion from the
Democratic and Social Convention (which he had co-founded in 1991) when he chose to take up ministerial posts in the government of
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara. It received 0.9% of the vote in the
1999 parliamentary elections, failing to win a seat. It contested the
2004 parliamentary elections in alliance with the
Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism and the
Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally, with the joint list winning four seats. Jackou took one of the seats, becoming the PNA's first elected deputy. It retained its single seat in the
2009 parliamentary elections, but received no votes in the
2011 elections that followed a
2010 coup. In the
2016 parliamentary elections it received 0.5% of the vote, failing to win a seat. ==References==