After its failures leading its own presidential candidates in the 2004 and 2008 processes, the PRSC was forced to accept its reality as a minority party and wager on alliances with other forces to achieve some share of power.
From then on, in his participation in presidential elections, he has not only allied himself with large parties, but has even done so with small ones. In 2012, he led Danilo Medina as a candidate.
It was the first time that a PLD member was nominated by the red party, since the 1996 alliance was in the second round, so Leonel Fernández did not appear in a PRSC box either in that process or in subsequent ones, although he always received the support of a broad sector of reformism.
With Danilo, he was around 6 percent of the votes. In 2016, he led Luis Abinader as a candidate, in alliance with the then newly created PRM, and managed to exceed 5 percent of the votes, so he remained in the majority.
In the 2020 elections, he also supported a new party, in this case Fuerza del Pueblo, running Leonel Fernández as a candidate. The bet of the reformists seemed clear, and even logical.
Based on the fact that they had a party with a longer tradition, with an attractive color on the ballot, such as red, and a good location, since they owned box number four, they thought they could get more votes than the same number. FP, which was a conversion of the Dominican Workers Party. But it was not like that. The new party obtained 4.61 percent of the votes, and the Reformist, 3.68 percent.
