The party was established during the founding congress on 2 June 2014 as the
Party of Miro Cerar (
Stranka Mira Cerarja, SMC). SMC was spearheaded by Miro Cerar, a law professor and legal advisor to parliament, and the son of a famous Yugoslav Slovene athlete. The party rapidly ascended to top opinion polls shortly after its establishment. the most parliamentary seats of any party in the independent nation's history. Miro Cerar was appointed as the Prime Minister designate. On 18 September 2014, the
Cerar cabinet was formed, with the SMC as lead party in a coalition with the
Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS) and
Social Democrats (SD). Despite the outstanding performance during the parliamentary elections, SMC saw little success during the 2014 local elections, failing to win a single mayoral post. On 21 November 2014, the SMC was admitted as a full member of the
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) at the ALDE congress in
Lisbon. On 7 March 2015, at the SMC party congress, the name of the party was changed to
Modern Centre Party. After its record-setting electoral victory in 2014, In the wake of the 2018 parliamentary election,
Milan Brglez, hitherto Speaker of Parliament and SMC vice-president, was ejected from the party in a unanimous decision by the party's executive committee. Brglez alleged the expulsion was a result of his principled opposition to and criticism of some party decisions, and for his opposing a prospective SMC coalition with the right-wing
Slovenian Democratic Party. Brglez further stated that the expulsion precipitated after allegations surfaced that he was considering a self-candidacy for a second speakership term (which Brglez denied) that enraged Cerar (who was purportedly also vying for the post), and that the expulsion was concocted by Cerar, who orchestrated it with a bottom-up reshuffling of willing party functionaries so as to enable the expulsion. Brglez had been known to quarrel with Cerar about government policy during Cerar's premiership, with Cerar calling on Brglez to resign on one occasion, though the two later partially reconciled. On 26 March
Janja Sluga,
Igor Zorčič and
Branislav Rajić left the party and announced that they are working on forming a new parliamentary group with
Jurij Lepi that is to be led by Janja Sluga. On 4 December 2021, SMC merged with a non-parliamentary Economic Active Party to form a new party,
Concretely. ==Ideology==