Stefanos Manos left
New Democracy (ND) in 1999 to found
The Liberals, before later running on ND and
Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) electoral lists in
2000 and
2004 respectively. Unlike The Liberals, Drassi was not founded as an expressly liberal party, but claims to espouse "
common sense" as an ideological basis. In its first contested election, the
2009 European elections, Drassi finished ninth with 0.8% of the vote. It subsequently did not participate in the
general election in October 2009. In the
May 2012 legislative election, Drassi ran in
electoral alliance with the
Liberal Alliance. It won 1.8% of the vote finishing twelfth overall, directly behind the
Democratic Alliance and
Recreate Greece, which both had similar liberal ideologies to Drassi. Ahead of new elections in
June 2012 legislative election, Drassi and the Liberal Alliance formed an electoral pact with Recreate Greece, while the Democratic Alliance, which they had also approached, In the
2014 European elections, Drassi ran in
electoral alliance with Recreate Greece. On 5 January 2015, Drassi's leader Skylakakis and the leader of
The River party,
Stavros Theodorakis, gave a press conference announcing a joint
electoral list for the
January 2015 legislative election. On 3 September 2015, Drassi decided to again support The River in the upcoming snap
September 2015 legislative election. In January 2017, Drassi decided to migrate with
ND. In February 2019, Drassi was suspended. ==Ideology==