The European Democrats were founded in 2002 by
Jan Kasl, a former
Civic Democrat mayor of Prague. From 2004, this party began cooperating with the SNK Union of Independents, winning 11% of the vote in the
2004 European Parliament election. In January 2006, the European Democrats agreed on a merger with SNK Union of Independents, to become
SNK European Democrats; most of the party members left to join the new party. However, the original party was not dissolved due to an ongoing judicial dispute regarding the 2002 local elections in Prague. The remaining party members renamed the party to
United Democrats – Association of Independents (SD-SN) later that year. The party subsequently lost all of its Prague city councilors in the
2006 local elections and all of its regional councilors in the
2008 Czech regional elections. SD-SN ran independently in the
2009 European Parliament election, receiving 0.06% of the vote and losing its only seat in the
European Parliament. The party did not achieve any further electoral success until 2017, when it nominated
Alena Dernerová, Senator since 2010 for
S.cz, for the re-run of the
2016 Senate election in
Most, which Dernerová won in the first round. In the Senate, Dernerová joined the
Mayors and Independents club. Dernerová failed to hold her mandate in the
Czech Senate election, losing in the second round of the election. Since then, the party has moved in a conservative and anti-system direction. For the
2024 European Parliament election, the party ran as part of the
Stačilo! alliance, together with the Communist Party and ČSNS. Its nominee
Ondřej Dostál, a lawyer and former health expert for the
Czech Pirate Party, was second on the list, and was elected as an MEP. Dostál later joined
Stačilo!. == Election results ==