Democrats (Greece, 2024)

The Democrats (Δημοκράτες) is a Greek political party founded in 2024 by former PASOK–KINAL politician Andreas Loverdos.

It describes itself as a "patriotic, popular, politically liberal, modernizing, reformist, digital and pluralist" party.

The party is participated in 2024 European Parliament election in Greece.

History
On 7 February 2024, Andreas Loverdos filed the necessary documents and supporting documents for the establishment of the party, at the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court. On 4 March 2024, the new party was presented through a Loverdos' video message from Evros.

On 20 March 2024, in Brussels, it was announced that the party had joined the European parliamentary group Renew Europe, after a meeting of party officials with the RE leader Valérie Hayer.

On 21 March 2024, Panagiotis Konsoulas was elected by the temporary Political Committee of the party as the first Secretary of the party. On 26 March, it was announced that the criminologist Tatiana Douvara took over as Press Spokesperson, while a day later it was announced that the president of the Athens Central Fish Market, Vassilis Simos, took over as Political Spokesperson.

On 28 March 2024, the former Hellenic Parliament member of the Democratic Alignment and PASOK–KINAL, Theodoros Papatheodorou, took over as vice president of the party.

On 9 June 2024, in the 2024 European Parliament election, the party failed to elect an MEP, underperforming compared to opinion polls and taking 1.45% of the vote.