[6] However, the name was rejected by the Permanent Electoral Bureau, because an alliance with an identical name existed in 1996, and the Democratic Liberal Party, that owned the copyright for the name, refused to grant it to the PSD.

[8] At the 2014 European Parliament election in Romania, the alliance won 37.60% of the votes, coming first.

[10] After the dismissal of the Fourth Ponta Cabinet on 17 November 2015, UNPR left the alliance and, on 12 July 2016, it merged into the People's Movement Party.

[11] After the 2016 Romanian parliamentary election, PSD and ALDE formed 3 successive coalition governments.

ALDE withdrew from the Dăncilă Cabinet in August 2019, thereby marking the end of the alliance.