 The party was dissolved on 12 November 2016 to form Union of European Democrats.The party was a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party.The Democratic Party was formed on the initiative of Freedom Union chairman Władysław Frasyniuk, together with the social-democratic economist Jerzy Hausner, until recently a member of the governing post-communist Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), and prominent Christian democrat, former UW member Tadeusz Mazowiecki.