Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe | |
Official abbreviation | ALDE (English), ADLE (French) |
Members |
69/751 before the 2019 European elections |
Group leader | Guy Verhofstadt |
founding | 2004 |
predecessor | Group of the Liberal and Democratic Party of Europe |
resolution | 2019 |
successor | Renew Europe |
Alignment | Liberalism , centrism |
European parties |
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) European Democratic Party (EDP) |
Website | alde.eu |
The Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) was a political group in the European Parliament from 2004 to 2019 . There are also factions of this name in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , in the Committee of the Regions and in the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO .
The ALDE Group in the European Parliament consisted of the members of the liberal ALDE party , formerly the European Liberal Democratic and Reform Party (ELDR), which includes liberal parties, and the European Democratic Party (EDP), an association of center parties . From 2004 to 2014 it was the third largest group, from 2014 to 2019 the fourth largest group in parliament. Most recently, the ALDE group had 67 members from 21 countries. Graham Watson was chairman of the ALDE group until 2009 , then Guy Verhofstadt .
After the European elections in 2019 , the ALDE parties together with "Renaissance", the list of French President Emmanuel Macron , and the Romanian alliance USR-PLUS founded the new parliamentary group Renew Europe . When it was constituted, the parliamentary group comprised 108 members, 39 more than the ALDE parliamentary group last.
There was also an ALDE group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . In the absence of their own Green parliamentary group, a few members of the European Green Party (EGP) were also part of the ALDE.
National parties in the group
LD | |
1979 |
40/410 |
1984 |
38/434 |
1984 |
31/434 |
1989 |
45/518 |
1989 |
49/518 |
1994 |
45/518 |
ELDR | |
1994 |
44/567 |
1999 |
42/626 |
1999 |
50/626 |
2004 |
67/788 |
ALDE | |
2004 |
88/732 |
2009 |
100/785 |
2009 |
84/736 |
2014 |
83/766 |
2014 |
67/751 |
2019 |
69/751 |