On 30 April 2009, in the Voivodeship Sejmik of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, the parliamentary group of DŚ XXI was formed from the transformation of the Civic Platform Self-Government group (Polish: Obywatelska Platforma Samorządowa),[7] which included councillors elected from the Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO) lists.

[13] On 12 February 2014 ODŚ joined the ruling coalition in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship Sejmik (leaving only PiS in opposition).

Wojciech Murdzek, who ran with the support of PO (from his own committee), lost the election for mayor of Świdnica in the second round.

In the local council from the PO list (which won 16 seats), seats from among the ODŚ representatives were won by: Rafał Dutkiewicz (who did not take it, however, remaining mayor of Wrocław), Janusz Marszałek, Jerzy Michalak, Marek Obrębalski, Ewa Rzewuska and Paweł Wróblewski.

Some of the activists of Citizens' Lower Silesia, who opposed Rafal Dutkiewicz's agreement with PO and the perceived right-wing shift, formed the 2014 Polish local elections committee Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy, which won 4 seats in the provincial assembly.

[17] On 31 March 2016, the ODŚ councillors associated with Rafał Dutkiewicz (Janusz Marszałek, Jerzy Michalak, Marek Obrębalski, Ewa Rzewuska and the assembly chairman Paweł Wróblewski) left the Civic Platform club.

In addition, other councillors of the party - Michał Bobowiec, vice-chairman of the local assembly Julian Golak, Czesław Kręcichwost, Ryszard Lech and voivodship Marshal Cezary Przybylski - left PO.

Together with three councillors elected from BS lists (Tymoteusz Myrda, Patryk Wild and Ewa Zdrojewska), as well as another non-aligned councillor Kazimierz Janik (elected from the SLD list), they formed the club Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy, which became the largest club in the assembly and, in coalition with psl, took over power in the voivodeship, ousting PO from it.

[18][19] On 27 June 2016 there was an expansion of the provincial governing coalition, joined by Civic Platform and the Democratic Left Alliance (having been in a joint councillors' club with the PSL for some time).

[20] Councillors elected from Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy lists (Tymoteusz Myrda, Patryk Wild and Ewa Zdrojewska, who was dismissed as vice-marshal of the voivodeship) then left their club and became non-aligned, soon forming the Club of Non-Partisan Councillors (in March 2017 this milieu co-founded the nationwide Local Government Movement ‘Bezpartyjni’).

[21] On 14 July 2016 the former councillors' club Bezpartyjni Samorządowcy (with 11 members) adopted the name Lower Silesian Local Government Movement (Polish: Dolnośląski Ruch Samorządowy, DRS), with Michal Bobowiec as its leader.

The marshal of the voivodeship Cezary Przybylski, who belonged to the club, announced the start of DRS under this party in the local elections.

[26] In October 2017, DRS announced the candidacy of Jerzy Michalak for mayor of Wrocław in the 2018 Polish local elections.

[30] The electoral lists of the With Dutkiewicz for Lower Silesia committee included MP Stanisław Huskowski of the Union of European Democrats, former local councilor Ryszard Lech, former Wałbrzych mayor Piotr Kruczkowski, and former professional athletes - boxer Maciej Zegan (former councillor of Wrocław), volleyball player Mariusz Dutkiewicz and basketball player Mirosław Łopatka.

[30] In the voivodeship sejmik elections, the With Dutkiewicz for Lower Silesia committee received 8.29% of the vote (it was the 4th result) and two seats, which were won by Stanisław Huskowski and Ryszard Lech.

[34][35] On 10 March 2020 the association New Hope was registered, with Tadeusz Grabarek (board member of Nowoczesna, party vice-chairman until 2022) as chairman, and Piotr Lech (mayor of Milicz), Leon Susmanek (board member of the Union of European Democrats) and Piotr Uhle (chairman of the Nowoczesna club in the Wrocław council) as vice-chairmen.

[39] On 29 January 2022 it was decided to establish New Hope councillor club in the Lower Silesian assembly and in the municipal councils of Wrocław and Świdnica.

[45] In the 2024 Polish local elections, New PL activists ran on behalf of Civic Coalition or the Third Way, to which the Union of European Democrats belongs.

[47] The party is also strongly supportive of decentralizaton of Poland, and despite mixes a generally conservative outlook with some liberal-leaning elements, such as focus on climate change and opposing the rhetoric of Law and Justie on the LGBT community.