* 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

The New Zealand Liberal Party aggressively promoted agrarianism in its heyday, 1891-1912.

The Liberal Party set out to change that by a policy it called " populism.

When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.

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* 1971 – A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.

In order to eliminate one of the problems of the reign of Elizabeth, the single party and its destabilizing consequences, the Liberal Party was allowed to incorporate and participate in National Politics, and the ' turnism ' or alternanation was to become the new system.

* 1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.

It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, after having secured former Liberal minister Don Chipp as a high-profile leader .< ref >

* 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

The province is currently governed by the BC Liberal Party, led by Premier Christy Clark, who became leader as a result of the party election on February 26, 2011.

From 1852 onwards, Disraeli's career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party.

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

During 1988, the Liberals formally merged with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats, though a small splinter Liberal Party was formed in 1989 by former members opposed to the merger.

During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).

The Liberal Party favoured social reform, personal liberty, reducing the powers of the Crown and the Church of England ( many of them were Nonconformists ) and an extension of the electoral franchise.

A crowd waits outside Leeds Town Hall to see them elect a Liberal Party candidate during the United Kingdom general election, 1880 | 1880 general elections.

The political terms of " modern ", " progressive " or " new " Liberalism began to appear in the mid to late 1880s and became increasingly common to denote the tendency in the Liberal Party to favour an increased role for the state as more important than the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice.

After nearly becoming extinct in the 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party revived its fortunes somewhat under the leadership of Jo Grimond in the 1960s, by positioning itself as a radical centrist non-socialist alternative to the Conservative and Labour Party governments of the time.

The Liberal Party grew out of the Whigs, which had its origins as an aristocratic faction in the reign of Charles II.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

Gladstone personally supported Home Rule, but a strong Liberal Unionist faction led by Joseph Chamberlain, along with the last of the Whigs, Hartington, opposed it.

The Liberal Nationalist Party ( Partido Liberal Nacionalista — PLN ) was established with support from a faction of the Conservative Party to support Somoza Garcia's candidacy.

The Jovito Salonga faction of the Liberal Party, the remaining US-based political exiles, and the Left boycotted the elections.

A faction of the Republican party, the Liberal Republicans, bolted in 1872, publicly denounced the political patronage system known as Grantism and demanded amnesty for Confederate soldiers.

The background of the party is in 1955 as a progressive liberal faction of the Italian Liberal Party which formed the Radical Party ( Partito Radicale ).

The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party.

The majority of Liberal Unionists, including Hartington, Lord Lansdowne, and George Goschen, were drawn from the Whig faction of the party and had been expected to split from the Liberal Party anyway, for reasons connected with economic and social policy.

With the addition of Albert Anastasia to the Commission in 1951, the so-called " Liberal faction ," which included Costello, began to get stronger.

As a result, the " Conservative faction " that controlled the Commission from 1936 – 53, was now rivaled by the Liberal Costello-Anastasia-Lucchese alliance.

Though not facing a majority, the inability of the Liberal parties ( themselves unable to form a single faction until 1934 ), the Conservatives and Agrarians to form a majority government pressed for a minority government led by Hansson, expecting support from the Farmers ' League through an agriculture policy favoring the interests of the League ( kohandeln ), although stopping short of inviting it into the cabinet.

At the apex of his political life, Ōhira came to represent what were known as " mainstream factions " within the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) which put him at odds with Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, who led what were known as an " anti-mainstream " faction.

In 1958, he entered the lower house of the Diet of Japan, joining the powerful faction of Kakuei Tanaka in the Liberal Democratic Party.

He rose to power after uniting his Conservative party and the breakaway Action liberale nationale progressive faction of the Liberal party of Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, to form a new conservative party, the Union Nationale.

This time, however, the fault lines were different: Cross and Oliver had put aside their longtime enmity to join in opposing conscription, and Sifton, who had been selected Premier in part because he was not identified with either faction in the old feud, was Alberta's most prominent pro-conscription Liberal.

By the 1880s he was denouncing " the new Toryism " ( that is, the " social reformist wing " of the Liberal party – the wing to some extent hostile to Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, this faction of the Liberal party Spencer compared to the interventionist " Toryism " of such people as the former Conservative party Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli ).

Meanwhile Escobar found some support in Tolima's political chief Alberto Santofimio affiliated also with a faction of the Liberal Party led by Alfonso López Michelsen and with a movement called Movimiento de Renovación Liberal ( Liberal Renovation Movement ) getting himself elected to the Chamber of Representatives as second runner up for Santofimios ' congress candidate Jairo Rojas.

Included are the following: Baptist Student Movement, Canterbury Club ( Episcopal ), Christian Science Organization, Friends' Meeting for Worship, Hillel ( Jewish ), Liberal Religious Fellowship, Lutheran Student Association, Newman Club ( Roman Catholic ), Presbyterian Student Fellowship, United Student Fellowship ( Congregational-Baptist ), and Wesley Fellowship ( Methodist ).

* 1973 – The Liberal Movement breaks away from the Liberal and Country League in South Australia.

The Free Patriotic Movement, The Kataeb Party, also known as the Phalange Party, the National Bloc, National Liberal Party, Lebanese Forces and the Guardians of the Cedars ( now outlawed ) each have their own base among Christians and it's controversial as to which group has the largest popularity.

However, when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, he formed his own party, the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan ( KBL, New Society Movement ) composed mainly of his loyal allies from the Nacionalista Party and Liberal Party, as well as some other parties.

UK Reform, UK Liberal Judaism and Israeli Progressive Movement can all trace their intellectual roots to the Reform movement in Judaism.

* Joseph Henry Allen, Our Liberal Movement in Theology ( Boston, 1882 )

* Joseph Henry Allen, Sequel to our Liberal Movement ( Boston, 1897 )

The Liberal Republican Movement ( 1910 ) full text online

Proponents of republicanism in the Liberal Party include: its former leader and former leader of the Australian Republican Movement Malcolm Turnbull, Julie Bishop, Joe Hockey and Peter Costello.

The multi-party system is dominated by the Progressive Liberal Party and the Free National Movement.

* Charles Webster, The Foreign Policy of Palmerston, 1830 – 1841: Britain, the Liberal Movement and the Eastern Question ( London: Bell, 1951, 2 volumes ).

For example, East Germany was ruled by a " National Front " of all anti-fascist parties and movements within parliament ( Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Liberal Party, Farmers ' Party, Youth Movement, Trade Union Federation, etc .).

Subsequently, the party allied itself with the New Liberal Movement in the formation of the Australian Democrats for the 1977 federal election.

* Liberal Catholic Movement

The Likud was formed by an alliance of several right wing parties prior to the 1973 elections ; Herut and the Liberal Party had been allied since 1965, and were joined by the Free Centre, the National List and the Movement for Greater Israel.

From 1972 to 1986, the centrist party with which COPE competed was The Electors ' Action Movement, which governed the city under prominent federal Liberal Mayor Art Phillips in the mid 1970s.

Despite the party's name and their position as " rebel Tories ", some of their candidates and officials were from the European Movement and originally from parties other than the Conservatives, such as Labour and the Liberal Democrats.