The party originated in 1996 as a faction of the
National Encounter Party, the
Movimiento Participación Amplia, Integración Solidaridad (PAIS). In 2000 Filizzola, who had been the National Encounter Party's President from April 1996 to March 1999, led the faction out of the National Encounter Party to form the Party for a Country of Solidarity. when it won two seats in the Chamber of Deputies with 3.3% of the vote. For the
2008 elections it was part of the
Patriotic Alliance for Change, which won two seats. ==References==