Democratie Liberale
Démocratie Libérale ( DL ; German "Liberal Democracy"; full name Démocratie Libérale, Républicains Indépendants et Républicains ) was a right-wing liberal party in France . It emerged from the Parti républicain in 1997 and merged in 2002 to form the Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP). The chairman of the party was Alain Madelin .
history
The Club Idées Action , which the then Minister for Enterprise and Economic Development Alain Madelin established in 1994/95, can be seen as the forerunner of the Démocratie Libérale . This included z. B. Claude Malhuret , Dominique Bussereau and Thierry Mariani . The parliamentary elections in May / June 1997 resulted in a victory for the left parties, a growth in the far right Front National and a massive defeat for the center-right parties. The right-wing liberal Parti républicain (PR) then decided on June 24, 1997 to rename it to Démocratie Libérale. With this the party should be positioned more broadly again. In fact, the DL also joined politicians like Dominique Bussereau, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Charles Millon , who left the PR in the 1995 split.
The party initially belonged - like its predecessor PR - to the bourgeois party alliance Union pour la démocratie française (UDF), but left it on May 16, 1998 after a dispute over the strategy in the regional elections: The DL supported bourgeois candidates if necessary have also been elected regional presidents with the votes of the right-wing extremist Front National ; while the centrist component of the UDF, the Force démocrate , categorically ruled this out. On May 25, 30 members of the National Assembly resigned from the UDF parliamentary group. They founded their own parliamentary group under the name Démocratie Libérale et Indépendant (DLI). Some of the DL members opted to stay in the UDF (e.g. François Léotard , Gérard Longuet , Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres ) and founded the Pôle républicain indépendant et libéral (PRIL) for this purpose.
In the 1999 European elections , the party formed an alliance with the Gaullist Rassemblement pour la République (RPR). Six DL candidates entered the European Parliament (including Alain Madelin, Françoise Grossetête , Tokia Saïfi ), where they sat in the conservative EPP-ED group . Despite this alliance with President Jacques Chirac's party , Madelin announced his candidacy in the upcoming presidential election in November 2000 . In the run-up to the election, however, 33 of the party's 43 MPs refused to support their candidate and called for Chirac to be elected.
Madelin received a total of 3.9% of the vote in the first round of the election in April 2002. After the founding of the UMP on April 23 of the same year, 39 out of 43 MPs issued a statement in support of the founding of the conservative party alliance under whose name the candidates for the DL ran in the parliamentary elections in June. In May 2002, Chirac named Jean-Pierre Raffarin , a DL politician, Prime Minister. However, in September 84.3% of the members voted for the dissolution of the party, which resulted in its integration into the UMP, which became the official party in November 2002.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Chronologie de Démocratie Libérale DL , france-politique.fr