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 implemented a strategy of promoting liberal trade, expanding Brazil's market to foreign goods, privatizing state-owned enterprises, and trying to curb the country's severe hyperinflation through the Plano Collor plan, which substantially decreased inflation rates in 1991, but was followed by another increase in 1992.