Union of Radicals and Liberals

The Union of Liberals and Liberals (UFL) was an alliance of the Liberal Democratic Party of Switzerland (FDP) and the Liberal Party of Switzerland (LPS). It was founded in 2005 and was - as well as their Federal Palace Group - an engine of the merger of two opposition parties to jointly Party " FDP.The Liberals ' end of 2008.

The UFL was founded on June 25, 2005 in Neuchâtel at a joint delegate meeting of the two participating parties. Their aim was to bundle the liberal forces of Switzerland, according to the statutes adopted at the founding congress, further liberal currents could be included in the UFL. After the UFL was founded, the FDP and LPS remained independent parties with their own party organs. The participating parties coordinated their policies at the periodically held delegate meetings of the UFL, and the leadership of the parties also met regularly. The activities were coordinated by the political officer of the UFL.

The National Councils and Councilors of the FDP and LPS formed in 2003 in the Federal Assembly , led by the Ticino FDP National Fulvio Pelli a common liberal-liberal group that in 2008, overlooking the proposed merger on FDP Liberal Group has been renamed. In the federal parliamentary elections of 2007, the UFL received 17.5% of the votes; its parliamentary group at the time consisted of 35 national councilors and 12 councilors. With 8 national councilors and 3 councilors of states, the parliamentary group had a 22.9% share of women, in the parliamentary group presidium under the leadership of Urner FDP national councilor Gabi Huber in 2008 there was a women majority.

In 2007 the women's groups of the FDP and LPS merged under the name "FDP-Women Switzerland - We Liberals" . Thereafter, several cantonal parties of the Freinns and the Liberals completed their merger at cantonal level. In 2008, the Young Liberals also merged with the Young Liberal Party of Switzerland. Finally, on January 1, 2009, the two Union parties merged at national level to form a common liberal party, the FDP. The Liberals , thus the UFL was dissolved by its founders on December 31, 2008.