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===After 2006===
In 2006, the party created the [[Left and Democrats]] (LiD) [[political coalition]] with the Democratic Left Alliance, [[Social Democracy of Poland]] and [[Labour Union (Poland)|Labour Union]]. It continued to join the coalition for the parliamentary elections 2007. It gained 3 parliamentary seats in the lower chamber of Polish Diet. The coalition was ended in March 2008, and 3 democratic members of parliament formed their own parliamentary group.

The Democrats gathered only 25,937 votes in the 2009 European elections, reaching similar support as the newly founded Polish [[green politics|green]] party [[Greens 2004]]. This outcome was seen as a defeat. In June 2009 two of the elected parliamentarists left the party. On 10 January, Brygida Kuźniak became a new leader of Democrats, beating former deputy leader Bogdan Lis. Currently, also the third parliamentarist switched to the [[Democratic Party (Poland)|Democratic Party]] (''Stronnictwo Demokratyczne''), as well as many prominent leaders that do not share the new shift in party's ideology.

The party joined the [[Europa Plus (Poland)|Europa Plus]] political alliance on 24 June 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.warsawvoice.pl/WVpage/pages/article.php/25017/news |title=The Warsaw Voice |publisher=Warsawvoice.pl |date=2013-06-25 |access-date=2014-07-16}}</ref>

On 12 November 2016, the party was dissolved and merged with the European Democrats club at the [[Sejm]] to form a new party called [[Union of European Democrats]], which is generally less progressive and more moderate conservative than Democratic Party was.