The party was founded with the name
Panhellenic Patriotic Union (
PPE, ) by 84-year-old Prodromos Emfietzoglou on 17 November 2021. Previously, Emfietzoglou was the owner of the construction company "Mechaniki" until its bankruptcy in 2010. In March 2023, the Patriotic Union and the
Patriotic Force for Change party of
Konstantinos Bogdanos decided to cooperate in the
2023 legislative election and thus was put vice-president of the coalition. Prior to this, the Hellenic Revolution, Patriotic Association, ELKIS, United Greece-New Europe and National Patriotic Party of Greece agreed to take part in the coalition of the Patriotic Union. The Greek section of the
US Republican Party and Hellenic-Russian-Armenian Friendship Association also expressed support for the coalition. The cooperation of Bogdanos with the Patriotic Union caused a split in the
Patriotic Force for Change. The party's participation in the 2023 election was not accepted by the
Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece after an appeal by Patriotic Union-Greek Popular Rally, a minor party with an almost identical name that had participated in the
2014 European Parliament election. Another reason was the use of the
Vergina Sun as the party's symbol, which is considered a national symbol and therefore can't be used as an identifying symbol of a political party. Consequently, the party got renamed to
Patriotic Force – Prodromos Emfietzoglou and changed its emblem from the star of Vergina to the initial letters of the leader's name into a square, in order to take part in
the next election. On May 31, 2023, the party created a new coalition with the parties
Free Again,
Movement 21 and
Now All Together called
Patriotic Coalition. On October 31, 2023, the party was renamed to
Patriots - Prodromos Emfietzoglou; the party also updated its logo to one that shows a
nuclear family holding hands together. In the
2024 European Parliament elections Ilias Kasidiaris declared that he would vote for retired artillery officer Charalambos Giotis, head of a municipal faction in the municipality of Athens that was on the
Patriots party's ballot. Subsequently, the candidate received almost double the number of crosses from the party's president himself,
Prodromos Emfietzoglou. == Ideology ==