Democratic League ( ca, Lliga Democràtica, LD) is a

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founded in August 2019 by Astrid Barrio and former president of Catalan Civil Society Josep Ramon Bosch, aiming to lead the space of the "centre-right, moderate

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" but pushing for political dialogue, agreement and good government and "with full respect to the

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". The party was officially registered in the

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on 13 December 2019. In July 2020, former

Democratic Convergence of Catalonia The Democratic Convergence of Catalonia ( ca, Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya; , CDC), frequently shortened as Convergence ( ca, Convergència; ) was a Catalan nationalist, liberal political party in Catalonia (Spain), currently still exist ...

(CDC) deputy and Convergents (CNV) member Sílvia Requena became its new secretary-general.

History

Ever since its inception, the Democratic League has been in search for other political actors to form an electoral platform able to occupy the "orphaned" political space left by the dissolution of the late

Convergence and Union Convergence and Union ( ca, Convergència i Unió, CiU; ) was a Catalan nationalist electoral alliance in Catalonia, Spain. It was a federation of two constituent parties, the larger Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) and its smaller coun ...

(CiU), having probed other similarly-aligned parties such as

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(Lliures) to coalesce into a new political party, in a congress scheduled for March 2020. The COVID-19 outbreak in Spain forced the congress's suspension, and new developments up until June 2020 saw Lliures disengaging from the initial merger idea and proposing instead to constitute an electoral alliance that was able to attract other parties, such as the newly-founded

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(PNC) and the successor of the late

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(UDC),

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(Els Units). On 15 July 2020, it was announced that the party would be forming an electoral alliance with

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and Convergents (CNV) to contest the

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, on the basis of a joint programme pushing for an expansion of Catalan self-government and a solidary fiscal agreement, as well as opposing Catalan independence and

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