History
- 13 January 2004 – Ivan Šimko and a group of MPs left the SDKÚ, after frictions with Mikuláš Dzurinda
- 27 March 2004 – surprisingly Zuzana Martináková was elected the party leader
- October 2004 – Ivan Šimko left the party and founded a new political party named Mission 21 (Slovak: Misia 21)
- 17 April 2009 – became an observer member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (until 2011)
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