The Liberal Party of Geneva , abbreviated PLG, was a classical liberal

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 political party in the Canton of Geneva

Canton of Geneva

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. It was the cantonal branch of the Liberal Party of Switzerland

Liberal Party of Switzerland

The Liberal Party of Switzerland was a party with economically liberal policies. It was known as a party of the upper class. On 1 January 2009 it merged with the larger Free Democratic Party to establish FDP.The Liberals....

 until 1 January 2009, when the federal party merged with the Free Democratic Party

Free Democratic Party of Switzerland

The Free Democratic Party was a classical liberal political party in Switzerland. It was one of the major parties in Switzerland until its merger with the smaller classical liberal Liberal Party, to form FDP.The Liberals on 1 January 2009....

 to form FDP.The Liberals

FDP.The Liberals

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. On 30 May 2011, the party merged with the Radical Party of Geneva – the Free Democrats' cantonal branch – to form a single cantonal branch of the FDP.

It was the largest political party in the canton, holding twenty seats on the Grand Council

Grand Council of Geneva

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 at its dissolution. It participated in the centre-right

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 'Entente', with the Radicals and the Christian Democrats

Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland

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. At the last legislative election

Grand Council of Geneva election, 2009

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, these three parties won 42 of the 100 seats on the Council. Pierre Muller

Pierre Muller

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 was a member of the Liberal Party.

During the November 2005 elections for the Conseil d'Etat

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, two candidates from the Liberal Party were competing. While Mark Muller

Mark Muller

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 was elected, the other candidate, Micheline Spoerri, who was already a member of the Conseil d'Etat, did not get elected. In the 2009 Grand Council election

Grand Council of Geneva election, 2009

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, the party lost three seats, but remained the largest party in the canton, with a total of twenty seats.