[6] Since 2017, its chairman of the Main Board has been the former Minister for Economics of Latvia, Arvils Ašeradens,[7] who succeeded former European Commissioner Andris Piebalgs.

[11] The alliance, led by incumbent Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis from New Era, achieved a victory in the 2010 parliamentary election, despite the austerity measures enacted by his cabinet during the Great Recession of the late 2000s.

For the 2014 general election, Unity announced an electoral pact with the Reform Party, which was later followed by a full absorption in March 2015.

[16][17][18][19] Nevertheless, it remained as the largest parliamentary party in the ZZS-led Kučinskis cabinet and it held 5 ministerial portfolios from early 2016 to 2018.

[21][22][23] Some of the main issues that the cabinet had to face were the COVID-19 pandemic and the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The First Kariņš cabinet is so far the only government in democratic Latvian history to serve a full term of the parliament.

[24] Nevertheless, he joined EU Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis and MEP Sandra Kalniete as one of the front-runners of the party at the upcoming 2024 European Parliament election.