In the late 1970s, under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier, with the first attempts to create opposition political parties, political actors came together under the banner of organizations whose names reflected political traditions already established elsewhere in the world: Attorney Grégoire Eugène founded the Haitian Social Christian Party (PSCH), while Pastor Sylvio Claude founded the Haitian Christian Democratic Party (PDCH).

Following the fall of the dictatorship in 1986, the country witnessed the return of former opponents who had no longer had a say in national affairs since 1957. Professor Daniel Fignolé thus brought the Peasant Workers’ Movement back from exile. Very quickly, the party became the Movement for the Organization of the Country. Its acronym, MOP, which means “mop” in Creole, was retained, as was the broom that had served as the party’s emblem when it was founded in 1946. Louis Déjoie II revived the National Agricultural and Industrial Party (PAIN), which his father had founded in 1956. A younger party, the Rally of Progressive National Democrats (RDNP), led by Professor Leslie Manigat, was also able to establish a public presence, to name only a few.