Trifonov originally attempted to found a political party under the name of "There is No Such State" (Bulgarian: Няма такава държава, romanized: Nyama takava darzhava).
The application was turned down as the Supreme Court of Cassation of Bulgaria ruled that the party's proposed logo (a Bulgarian flag placed on top of an open human palm) violated the country's prohibition against the use of national symbols by political parties, causing him to change the name to "There Is Such a People" and adopt a new logo.
The party insisted on proposing a single-party cabinet, offering a chess player with no political experience as prime minister-designate.
[11][12] Having faced criticism for never attending parliamentary sessions during the previous convocation, Trifonov did not put himself forward as a candidate, stating that it was "not his place" and that his job would be to "take on responsibility" from outside the National Assembly.
[13] In the July 2021 snap parliamentary election, ITN polled narrowly ahead of GERB, thus winning a plurality, though not a majority, in the National Assembly.
Trifonov rejected the criticism, stating that he would continue communicating through the social network, but sacked Vasilev's candidacy and promised to "renovate" his cabinet proposal.
[18][19] More controversy then emerged, after an Austrian publication challenged a claim placed on Nikolov's profile page of him being an alumnus of the University of Klagenfurt in Austria.
[24][25] This caused a small-scale constitutional crisis, as Bulgarian law did not explicitly provide the opportunity for a party to withdraw a nomination it had already made before voting.
[33] In regard to ITN's decision to withdraw from the government and the ruling coalition, 5 of their MPs left the party's parliamentary group on 13 June and were congratulated by Kiril Petkov.
[35] In the subsequent 2022 Bulgarian snap parliamentary election, held in October, the party obtained only 3.71% of the vote, thus falling below Bulgaria's 4% electoral threshold.
[36] However, a few days later Slavi Trifonov announced the party would not support the expert government formed by Mariya Gabriel arguing it lacked true expertise.
[47] However, as of 2024, the party is opposed to the deployment of Bulgarian soldiers in Ukraine or the use of Bulgarian airfields to strike Russian territory, has called for a greater European role in facilitating peace negotiations between the two sides, and is opposed to the provision of heavy weapons to Ukraine, such as the S-200 and S-300 missile systems, aircraft and tanks.
[42] Despite this, ITN declared that recently adopted relaxations of COVID-19 measures for vaccinated individuals represented "discrimination" against non-vaccinated citizens and called for their abolition.
[55] The party defined as "tyranny" an order by Plovdiv's Medical University that required students attending in-person lectures to either present vaccination certificates or recently conducted COVID-19 tests.
[57] ITN claim that a presidential system would allow for a more clear division of responsibility between the National Assembly and President; they also see it as the only way out of the current political crisis.
[58] [59] Previously, the party had supported a switch to a First Past the Post system, as well as making it easier to organize referendums.