European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party
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The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (founded in 1993) is a liberal party, active in the European Union, uniting liberal and centrist parties around Europe which together represent more than 20 million European voters and is an international non-profit association incorporated under the laws of Belgium.
It originated as the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform party grouping with seats in the European Parliament, but on April 30, 2004 (the day before the enlargement of the European Union) reformed itself as a pan-European political party.
The youth-wing of the ELDR Party is the European Liberal Youth, abbreviated as LYMEC, which contains youth and student liberal organisations from across Europe and brings together more than 170,000 young liberal Europeans.
On July 13, 2004 the Parliamentary Group of the ELDR approved a recommendation to unite in a new group with the UDF, the Lithuanian Labour Party and additional Italian members to create a new centre force to be called the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). This group is the parliamentary group of the ELDR and the European Democratic Party.
President of the party is Werner Hoyer, member of parliament of the Free Democratic Party of Germany, who announced that he will step down at the next congress in september 2005 in Bratislava. The bureau consists further out of a treasurer and seven vice-presidents from around Europe. Amongst them is the current prime minister of Romania, Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu. The ELDR is the third political party of the European Union and has currently seven prime ministers and eight commissioners in its ranks.
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(Affiliate) Member Parties
- Democratic Alliance Party (Partia Aleanca Demokratike)
- Liberal Party of Andorra (Partit Liberal d'Andorra)
- Liberal Forum (Liberales Forum)
- Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten)
- Reformist Movement (Mouvement Réformateur)
- Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalno Demokratska Stranka)
- Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Dvizhenie za prava i svobodi)
- National Movement for Simeon II (Nacionalno Dvizhenie Simeon Vtori)
- Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats (Hrvatska Narodna Stranka - Liberalni Demokrati)
- Croatian Social Liberal Party (Hrvatska socijalno liberalna stranka)
- Liberal Party of Croatia (Liberalna Stranka)
- United Democrats (Enomeni Dimokrates)
- Civic Democratic Alliance (Obcanska demokraticka aliance)
- Danish Social Liberal Party (Det Radikale Venstre)
- Liberal Party of Denmark (Venstre)
- Centre Party of Estonia (Eesti Keskerakond )
- Estonian Reform Party (Eesti Reformierakond)
- Centre Party of Finland (Suomen Keskusta)
- Swedish People's Party (Svenska Folkpartiet)
- Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei)
- Alliance of Free Democrats (Szabad Demokratak Szövetsege )
- The Radicals (I Radicali)
- Italy of Values-List Di Pietro (Italia dei Valori - Lista Di Pietro)
- European Republican Movement (Movimento Repubblicani Europei)
- Italian Republican Party (Partito Repubblicano Italiano)
- Latvian Way (Latvijas Ceļš)
- Liberal and Centre Union (Liberalų ir centro sąjunga)
- New Union Social Liberals (Naujoji sąjunga (socialliberalai))
- Democratic Party (Luxembourg) (Demokratesch Partei) (Democratic Party)
- Liberal Party of Macedonia (Liberalna Partija na Makedonija)
- Democrats 66 (Democraten 66)
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie)
- Liberal Party (Venstre)
- Democratic Party - demokraci.pl (Partia Demokratyczna - demokraci.pl)
- National Liberal Party (Partidul Naţional Liberal)
- Civic Alliance of Serbia (Građjanski Savez Srbije)
- Liberals of Serbia (Liberali Srbije)
- Liberal Party of Kosovo (Partia Liberale e Kosoves)
- Alliance of the New Citizen (Aliancia Nového Občana)
- Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (Liberalna demokracija Slovenije)
- Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya)
- Centre Party (Centerpartiet)
- Liberal People's Party (Folkpartiet Liberalerna)
- Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (Freisinnig-Demokratische Partei/Parti Radical Démocratique)
See also
External link
- ELDR web site (http://www.eldr.org/)
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