The Liberal Alliance is a liberal

Liberalism

Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...

 political party in Greece

Greece

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 founded February of 2007. Its stated purpose is to cover the political ground between what it considers to constitute a conservative

Conservatism

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 New Democracy

New Democracy (Greece)

New Democracy is the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties in Greece. It was founded in 1974 by Konstantinos Karamanlis and formed the first cabinet of the Third Hellenic Republic...

 and the socialist PASOK

Panhellenic Socialist Movement

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 http://www.greekliberals.net/civilaction/content/view/142/140/.

The highest organ in Liberal Alliance is its congress, which elects a new president every 2 years and a 15-member administration committee.

Liberal Alliance's founding document is the Proclamation of Anavisos, written on 28 April 2007. It contains a reference to Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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.

The symbol of Liberal Alliance is like @ but instead of 'a' it has the Greek phi

Phi

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 letter, which is also the first letter of the word Liberal in the Greek language

Greek language

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, while the dominating colours are purple

Purple

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 and yellow

Yellow

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. (initially the logo was the head of Adamantios Korais

Adamantios Korais

Adamantios Korais or Coraïs was a humanist scholar credited with laying the foundations of Modern Greek literature and a major figure in the Greek Enlightenment. His activities paved the way for the Greek War of Independence and emergence of a purified form of the Greek language, known as...

, until the first congress)

Electoral results

The party participated in the 2007 general elections in Greece, where it tallied 0,1% of the popular vote, ranking 13th among 21 candidate parties. Its highest percentage was in the first Athens electoral prefecture, where it tallied 544 votes out of 337.000 cast, equaling 0,17%, while its worst percentage was in the prefecture of Pieria, which is the only prefecture where the party fielded no candidates.

It also participated in the 2009 European Parliament Greek elections, with an even lower tally of 0,08% of the popular vote, ranking 24th among 27 candidate parties. The results of the 2009 euroelections, considered as catastrophic, led the party to not participate in the 2009 general elections in Greece, held three months later.

In the 2010 local elections Liberal Alliance participated through the 'Portokali' movement in the coalition 'Dikaioma stin poli' of Giorgos Kaminis that won the mayorship of Athens.

People

The following people are associated with Liberal Alliance:

• President: Georgios Sarigiannidis, mathematician

Political positions

The Liberal Alliance defines itself as classical liberal party, championing personal liberty and human rights in both the political, social and economic sectors. Some of its positions are:

• Withdrawal of the state from every kind of business activity and the reduction in the size of government and public sector
  Public sector
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  .
• Decriminalization
  Decriminalization
  Decriminalization or Decriminalisation is the abolition of criminal penalties in relation to certain acts, perhaps retroactively, though perhaps regulated permits or fines might still apply . The reverse process is criminalization.Decriminalization reflects changing social and moral views...
  
   of drug use.
• Full separation of church and state.
• Abolition of the (compulsory in Greece) military draft.
• Abolition of permanent employment in the civil sector.
• Tax reduction.
• Permission for non-Government controlled universities to exist.
• Privatization of state run public services.
• Respect for the individuality of citizens.
• Abolition of the state-run, defined benefit scheme to a defined contribution pension system managed entirely by the private sector under supervision by a specialized government superintendency.

See also

• Liberalism
  Liberalism
  Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...
  
  
• Libertarianism
  Libertarianism
  Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...
  
  
• List of libertarian political parties
• Contributions to liberal theory
  Contributions to liberal theory
  Individual contributors to classical liberalism and political liberalism are associated with philosophers of the Enlightenment. Liberalism as a specifically named ideology begins in the late 18th century as a movement towards self-government and away from aristocracy...
  
  
• Liberalism worldwide
  Liberalism worldwide
  This article gives information on liberalism in diverse countries around the world. It is an overview of parties that adhere more or less to the ideas of political liberalism and is therefore a list of liberal parties around the world....
  
  
• Liberalism in Greece
  Liberalism in Greece
  This article gives an overview of liberalism in Greece. It is limited to liberal parties. The sign ⇒ denotes another party in that scheme. For inclusion in this scheme it isn't necessary so that parties labeled themselves as a liberal party.-Background:...
  
  
• The Liberals (Greece)
  The Liberals (Greece)
  The Liberals was a liberal political party in Greece founded by Stefanos Manos in April 1999. The president suspended operations of the party in October 2001, citing economic problems and limited appeal amongst the voting public . The party participated independently in popular elections only...
  
  , Greek party

External links

• Liberal Alliance website (in Greek
  Greek language
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• e-rooster Liberal blog in Greek and English