The Liberals of Andorra ( ca, Liberals d'Andorra, LA) is a conservative-liberal political party in Andorra. It is a member of the

Liberal International Liberal International (LI) is a worldwide organization of liberal political parties - a political international. It was founded in Oxford in 1947 and has become the pre-eminent network for liberal parties, aiming to strengthen liberalism aroun ...

and the

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE; french: Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l'Europe, ADLE) is a transnational alliance between two European political parties, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europ ...

History

The party was established as the Liberal Union () in 1992 by

Marc Forné Molné Marc Forné i Molné (; born 30 December 1946) was the prime minister of Andorra from 7 December 1994 to 20 February 2005. After 2 full terms, he was succeeded by Albert Pintat after Pintat won the January 2005 election. He is a lawyer by profes ...

. In the 1993 elections it received 22% of the vote and won five seats, making it the second largest party in the General Council. Nohlen D & Stöver P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p.164 Although the party was in opposition after

Òscar Ribas Reig Òscar Ribas Reig (; 26 October 193618 December 2020) was an Andorran politician, lawyer, and businessman who became the prime minister of Andorra in 1982.

formed a progressive coalition government, Ribas was forced out of office after losing a

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and Forné became Prime Minister on 7 December 1994.Nohlen & Stöver, p166 After two votes of no confidence, Forné called early elections in 1997. In the run-up to the elections the Union formed alliances with several local parties, including the Liberal Union–Liberal Group of Encamp, the

Liberal Opinion Group The Liberal Opinion Group ( ca, Grup opinió liberal, GOL) was a local political party in Andorra. History The party first contested national elections in 1997, when it was one of several local parties to ally with the Liberal Union to run in p ...

(GOL),

Unity and Renewal Unity and Renewal ( ca, Unitat i Renovació, UiR) was a local political party in Canillo, Andorra. History Although political parties were not legalised until 1993, the party contested the 1992 elections in the Canillo parish, winning three of ...

(UiR) and the Lauredian Union (UL), with the local parties contesting only at the parish level.Nohlen & Stöver, p162 The Union won 16 seats of which GOL took four, UL two and the UiR two, with Forné remaining Prime Minister. Shortly before the 2001 elections the party was renamed the Liberal Party of Andorra () It won 46.1% of the popular vote and 15 seats, with Forné again remaining Prime Minister. In the 2005 elections the party lost another seat, but was still able to form a government, this time led by

Albert Pintat Albert Pintat Santolària (; born 23 June 1943) is an Andorran citizen, who served as the prime minister of Andorra from 27 February 2005 to 5 June 2009. Pintat graduated from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 1967, majoring in economi ...

. Pintat resigned the leadership, which passed to Joan Gabriel, before the 2009 elections. In the elections the party was part of the Reformist Coalition alongside the Lauredian Union, Century 21, and two other political parties. The Coalition won 11 seats, whilst the Social Democrats won 14 seats and gained control of the government. In the run up to the 2011 parliamentary election, the Liberal Party and the other members of the Reformist Coalition gave support to the Democrats for Andorra (DA). The new party chose

Antoni Martí Antoni Martí Petit (; born 30 July 1963) is an Andorran architect and politician who served as the prime minister of Andorra from May 2011 to 16 May 2019, when he was elected on the ticket of the Democrats for Andorra. He was re-elected in th ...

as leader and won the election on 3 April 2011 a landslide with 20 of the General Council's 28 seats. Half way through the first term in office of Democrats for Andorra, a group of party activists started to actively work in order to run again separately in the 2015 elections. They presented their new name, Liberals of Andorra, and they announced their intention to stand candidates in the next parliamentary election. In the 2015 parliamentary election held on 1 March 2015, the Liberal Party received 27.7% of the vote and 8 seats in the General Council.

Election results

General Council elections

Local elections

Notable members

* Juli Minoves * Jordi Gallardo * Ferran Costa Marimon * Judith Pallarés i Cortés

References

External links

Official website
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