[11][12] The Fonding Council of Spolu consists of independent MPs of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and former members of Sieť, SaS and OĽaNO: Oto Žarnay, Jozef Mihál, Simona Petrík, Viera Dubačová, Miroslav Beblavý, Katarína Macháčková and lawyer Pavel Nechala of Transparency International.

[14] In the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election, Democrats joined the socially liberal party Progressive Slovakia with which they created a coalition but narrowly failed to get into the parliament[15] due to its low popularity.

[16] After the crisis of Cabinet of Eduard Heger in 2023, then-leader of the party Miroslav Kollár met former prime minister of Slovakia Mikuláš Dzurinda, with whom he planned to co-operate during the following parliamentary elections.

[17] On 27 January, after the announcement of a snap election, Dzurinda presented the Blue Coalition, returning to Slovak politics after leaving it ten years ago.

[22][23][better source needed] Due to disagreements with Kollár, Dzurinda left the project shortly after and founded his own The Blues – European Slovakia party.