The party carried out a platform of encouraging free trade, opening Brazil's market to imports, privatizing state-run companies, and attempting to reduce the country's rampant hyperinflation by way of the Plano Collor, which significantly reduced inflation rates in 1991, but was followed by a renewed and persistent, though smaller uptick in 1992.
The party's economic strategy involved promoting free trade, opening Brazil's economy to foreign competition, selling off state-owned businesses, and attempting to control hyperinflation through the Plano Collor program, which had a significant impact on inflation rates in 1991 but led to a slight increase in 1992.