Cika wannan jumla: Juyin mulki a watan Janairun 1996 ya kai ga
zaben shugaban kasa a watan Yuli, wanda aka zabi shugaban juyin mulki Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara. Kungiyar Independents ta National for Democratic Renewal, wacce aka kirkira don tallafa masa, ta sami cikakken rinjaye a zaben 'yan majalisa a karshen shekarar a cikin zanga-zangar adawa. Wani juyin mulki a 1999 ya haifar da babban zabe a wannan shekarar. An zabi Tandja a matsayin shugaban kasa kuma MNSD ta fito a matsayin babbar jam'iyya a Majalisar Dokoki ta Kasa tare da kujeru 38 daga cikin 83. Zaben 2004 ya ga an sake zabar Tandja kuma MNSD ta kasance babbar jam'iyya.