Liberal Democracy (France)

Démocratie Libérale was a French center-right party that existed from 1997 to 2002.

The DL was born on 24 June 1997 from the right-wing liberal Parti républicain, considered the predecessor party. Alain Madelin was elected Chairman, a position he held until resolution of the DL. The party was initially the centrist Union pour la démocratie française on, but left this on 16 May 1998. On May 25, the outlet 30 deputies of the National Assembly from the UDF faction followed. They formed their own group under the name Démocratie et Libérale Indépendant ( DLI). In the 1999 European elections, the party formed an alliance with the conservative Rassemblement pour la République. Despite this alliance with the party of President Jacques Chirac Madelin announced in November 2000 to his candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections. Prior to the election denied 33 of the 43 deputies of the party their candidate, however, the support and asked to make a choice Chriracs. Madelin reached a total of 3.9 % of the votes in the first round of the election in April 2002. After the founding of the UMP on 23 April of the same year supported 39 out of 43 deputies in a statement, the foundation of the conservative party alliance, competed under whose name the candidates of the DL in the parliamentary elections in June. With Jean -Pierre Raffarin Chirac appointed in May 2002, a politician of the DL as prime minister. However, in September agreed 84.3 % of the members for a dissolution of the party, which had their integration into the UMP, which was in November 2002, the official party for the episode.