At the same time reaction among anti-organization Democratic leaders and in the Liberal party to the Mayor's reported plan was generally favorable.

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

The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and Conservative Party of Canada ( or its predecessors ), and as of the 2011 election the social-democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has risen to prominence.

Prince Ranariddh's royalist FUNCINPEC Party was the top vote recipient with 45. 5 % of the vote, followed by Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party and the Buddhist Liberal Democratic Party, respectively.

Post-World War II Japan has historically been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party but there was a brief coalition government formed after the 1993 election following LDP's first loss of its overall House of Representatives majority since 1955.

The agreement outlined a formal coalition consisting of two opposition parties, the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party.

Furthermore, the leader of the German Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), Philipp Rösler, serves as Vice-Chancellor of Germany and the leader of the British Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, serves as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Centre Party, Christian Democratic Party, Socialist Left Party and Liberal Party were against EU-membership in both referendums.

Following German reunification in 1990, the FDP merged with the Association of Free Democrats, a grouping of liberals from East Germany and the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany.

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After World War II, he studied law and economics at the universities of Halle and Leipzig ( 1946 – 1949 ) and joined the East German Liberal Democratic Party ( LDPD ) in 1946.

Since the Liberal Democratic Party ( the LDP ) was in power, it has been convention that the President of the party serves as prime minister.

For the 1947 elections, anti-Yoshida forces left the Liberal Party and joined forces with the Progressive Party to establish the new Democratic Party ( Minshuto ).

Continual fragmentation of parties and a succession of minority governments led conservative forces to merge the Liberal Party ( Jiyuto ) with the Japan Democratic Party ( Nihon Minshuto ), an offshoot of the earlier Democratic Party, to form the Liberal Democratic Party ( Jiyu-Minshuto ; LDP ) in November 1955.

A member of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ), Kaifu ran successfully for the Diet in 1960 and served for sixteen terms totaling 49 years.

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" Other opposition parties such as the Conservative Democratic Party and the Independent Liberal party, were both free to denounce the Sandinista government and participate in the elections.

Ex-Legionnaires, idealistic reformers, and former Lopiztas joined in July 1887 to form the Centro Democrático ( Democratic Center ), a precursor of the Liberal party, to demand free elections, an end to land sales, civilian control over the military, and clean government.

The King, senior Anglican bishops, MPs from the Liberal and Labour parties, Oswald Mosley, Jan Smuts, the Trades Union Congress and parts of the press were increasingly critical of the actions of the Black and Tans.

The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party is a European political party mainly active in the European Union, composed of 52 national-level liberal and liberal-democratic parties from across Europe.

In 1856, Isabella attempted to form the Union Liberal Party, a pan-national coalition under the leadership of Leopoldo O ' Donnell, who had already marched on Madrid that year and deposed another Espartero ministry.

The alternation between left and right was broken in the October 2000 elections when the Liberal Union and New Union parties won the most votes and were able to form a centrist ruling coalition with minor partners.

The leader of the center-left New Union ( also known as the Social Liberal party ), Artūras Paulauskas, became the Chairman of the Seimas.

Beit Knessett Shalom was initially established as a Liberal Congregation in the 1970s, and later affiliated to the Union for Progressive Judaism.

" Because of legal reasons Barceló was unable to use the name " Union Party " and in 1932, founded the " Liberal Party of Puerto Rico ".

The Liberal Party's political agenda was the same as the original Union Party's agenda and urged independence as a final political solution for Puerto Rico.

The Partido Liberal, Neto, Auténtico y Completo, an independence political party, later became the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) which would ironically end up promoting the " Estado Libre Associado " ( Free Associated State ) status that Barceló, as president of Union Party, had asked for in 1923 under Campbell Bill and which Muñoz Marín had always opposed, instead of independence.

Notable examples are the International Workingmen's Association ( also called the First International ), the Socialist International ( also called the Second International ), the Communist International ( also called the Third International ), and the Fourth International, as organizations of working class parties, or the Liberal International ( yellow ), Hizb ut-Tahrir, Christian Democratic International and the International Democrat Union ( blue ).

The Socialist International, the Liberal International, and the International Democrat Union are all based in London.

The conservatives merged with the Liberal and Democratic Union ( formed in 1906 ) to become the Liberal Union in 1910.

Constituent parties of the CDR joined the Democratic Party ( PD ), the National Liberal Party ( PNL ) and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( UDMR ) to form a centrist coalition government, holding 60 % of the seats in Parliament.

The Liberal party became deeply split, with most Anglophones joining in the pro-conscription Union government, a coalition controlled by the Conservatives under Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden.

On the 8 May 2004, a defection of several Centre Party members to form a new party, the Social Liberal Party, over a row concerning the Centrists ' " no " stance to joining the European Union changed the allocation of the seats in Riigikogu.

Lloyd George was uncertain of which wing to follow, carrying a pro-Chamberlain resolution at the local Liberal Club and travelling to Birmingham planning to attend the first meeting of Chamberlain's National Radical Union, but he had his dates wrong and arrived a week too early.

The VVD was founded in 1948 as a continuation of the Freedom Party, which was a continuation of the interbellum Liberal State Party, which in turn was a continuation of Liberal Union.

The current Rector of the University of Glasgow is Charles Kennedy MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and a former President of the Glasgow University Union.

In 1995 other parties included the Belarusian Ecological Party, the National Democratic Party of Belarus, the Party of People's Accord, the All-Belarusian Party of Popular Unity and Accord, the Belarusian United Agrarian Democratic Party, the Belarusian Scientific Industrial Congress, the Belarusian Green Party, the Belarusian Humanitarian Party, the Belarusian Party of Labor, the Belarusian Party of Labor and Justice, the Belarusian Socialist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus, the Polish Democratic Union, and the Republican Party.

The Liberal Association in Birmingham could no longer be relied upon to provide loyal support, so Chamberlain created the Liberal Unionist Association in 1888, associated with the National Radical Union, having extracted his supporters from the old Liberal organisation.

The Office québécois de la langue française ( OQLF ) () is a public organization established on March 24, 1961 by the Liberal government of Jean Lesage.

Liberal Judaism () (), is one of the two forms of Progressive Judaism found in the United Kingdom, the other being Reform Judaism.

Liberal Party () is a business-friendly, liberal conservative political party in Hong Kong.

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The Constitutionalist Liberal Party () is an opposition political party in Nicaragua.

The Liberal Party of Andorra () was a centre-right, conservative-liberal, political party in Andorra.

The Liberal Union of Lithuania () was a political party in Lithuania.

The National Liberal Party () was a liberal political party of the German Empire, which flourished between 1867 and 1918.

Allen Lee Peng Fei () ( born 24 April 1940 in Yantai, Shandong ), CBE, JP, is a founding member of Liberal Party of Hong Kong, veteran Hong Kong politician, political programme radio host and TV host.

The Liberal Democratic Party () is a liberal party in Angola, and is a member of Liberal International.

The Cuban Liberal Union () is a liberal party in Cuba.

The Liberal Party of Cuba () was a major political party in Cuba from 1910 until the Cuban Revolution the late 1950s.

The Liberal Democratic Party of Mozambique () is a liberal party in Mozambique.

The Social Liberal and Democratic Party () is a liberal party in Mozambique.

The Liberal Party of Kosovo () is a liberal party in the Republic of Kosovo.

The Liberal Democratic Party () is a liberal party in Turkey.

Tsebin Tchen () ( born 10 March 1940 ) is a former Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1999 to 2005, representing the state of Victoria.

Originally named Liberal People's Party (), it restyled its name as Liberals () in 2000.

The Liberal Party of Sweden () was a political party in Sweden.

Igor Leonidovych Dushin () was a candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the Liberal Democratic Party.

Braj Kachru () ( born 1932 in Srinagar, Kashmir, India ) is Jubilee Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He coined the term World English and has also published studies on Kashmiri.

* 1970 Isaiah Berlin — Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament ()

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