Arengo and Freedom (, AL) was a liberal and

social liberal Social liberalism is a political philosophy and variety of liberalism that endorses social justice, social services, a mixed economy, and the expansion of civil and political rights, as opposed to classical liberalism which favors limited g ...

political party in

San Marino San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino, is a landlocked country in Southern Europe, completely surrounded by Italy. Located on the northeastern slopes of the Apennine Mountains, it is the larger of two European microstates, microsta ...

. It was founded in September 2008 by two splinters from the

Party of Socialists and Democrats The Party of Socialists and Democrats (, PSD) is a social democracy, social-democratic and democratic socialist List of political parties in San Marino, political party in San Marino. It is a member of the Socialist International, and observer m ...

, Fabio Berardi and Nadia Ottaviani, both members of the

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, who considered the party to be too leftist. The group is linked to the Italian Clubs of Freedom. For the 2008 general election, the sole elections Arengo and Freedom have competed in, the party was part of the Pact for San Marino coalition and had its candidates in the list of the

Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party The Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party (, PDCS) is a Christian-democratic political party in San Marino. The PDCS is an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP), having joined the EPP in 1993. Its Italian counterpart was the no ...

(PDCS). The electoral coalition won 35 seats out of 60 in the

in the 2008 general election, gaining 54.22% of the national vote and a governmental majority of 5. After the Sammarinese political crisis of 2011, and looking to the elections of 2012, the party collapsed, their members joining many different parties.

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