Pro Patria Union
On 1 February 2001 ESE became Democrats – Estonian Democratic Party ("Demokraadid – Eesti Demokraatlik Partei", EDP). On 21 July 2005 it announced it would cooperate with the Pro Patria Union in local elections. At the beginning of 2006 there were plans to merge EDP with "Eesti Iseseisvuspartei" (EIP) and "Põllumeeste Kogu" ("Farmers' Council", PK), but this did not happen. On 18 March 2006 the party congress voted to join the Pro Patria Union, but this did not happen. On 11 February 2008 the Harju county court registry warned that the numbers of EDP members had fallen to 920, 80 less than the required 1000 threshold, and the registry gave EDP until 15 April 2008 to recover. At the beginning of 2008 there were new plans to merge EDP with EIP and PK, but again this did not happen.