The party was joined by three senators (Natale D'Amico, Giuseppe Scalera and Dini himself), a deputy (Italo Tanoni), an under-secretary (Daniela Melchiorre) and two regional councillors (Rosario Monteleone in Liguria and Antonio Verini in Abruzzo).

Dini was elected party president, Tanoni coordinator and Scalera leader in the Senate, where Liberal Democrats were able to form a sub-group within the Mixed Group.

[3] The party also continued to support Romano Prodi's government, but distanced from it on some issues, notably foreign policy and social security reform.

[4] One of the early goals of the LD was challenging the "statist illusion which survives in the DS and DL" and what they described as the hegemony of the far-left over the centre-left and the government.

[15][16][17] In October 2012 the balance of accounts of the PdL showed that the LD had received one million of Euros of financial support from Berlusconi's party,[18] which used to finance its satellites.

In the 2016 constitutional referendum the party was part of the "yes" camp, that was soundly defeated, and organised a committee presided by Tiziano Treu, a former minister and senator for Italian Renewal and DL.