Solidarity is the only party in Slovenia headed by a three-member presidency. The 211 founding members elected Uroš Lubej, the head of the All-Slovenia People's Uprising (VLV), Damjan Mandelc of the Committee for Justice and Solidarity in Society and Marina Tavčar Kranjc, a teacher at Maribor's Faculty of Arts.

The founding congress moreover adopted a statute, a moral code, the rules of procedure and party programme.

The party has two main goals, according to former Heath Minster Dušan Keber, who coordinated the document. It will work against authoritarian rule and strive to build solidarity as an alternative to neoliberal ideology. The programme will remain open for upgrades.

The party brings together All-Slovenia People's Uprising (VLV), the Committee for Justice and Solidarity in Society and the Network for Direct Democracy, as well as several smaller protest groups.

Addressing the congress, Tavčar Kranjc said that they were "not idealists...but were capable of realistic and professional analysis of what is wrong in the society". There are no quick solutions and several years will be needed to repair the country, she said.

"If there are still people in Slovenia who believe we do not know what we want and that we are afraid to take responsibility or that citizens cannot unite, they got a clear message today," said Lubej.

He said that they will not be "a coalition of reds, blacks or yellows", but a coalition of solidarity. They want to give politics back to the people and power is not the goal but the only means to return it to the people, said Lubej.

Mandelc expressed hope that the people will "write the judgement for political elites" at the next election. The new party could indeed reach a high percentage at the next election, as the most recent Politbarometer poll showed 44% would vote for it.

Also addressing the congress was historian Jože Pirjevec, who said the party had high goals and that these will have to be reached without the support of the nation.