The Liberal Alliance (FISY; el, Φιλελεύθερη Συμμαχία, ', ΦΙ.ΣΥ.) is a

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political party in

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, founded in February 2007. Its stated purpose is to cover the political ground between what it considers to constitute a

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and the

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PASOK The Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( el, Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα, Panellínio Sosialistikó Kínima, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK, (; , ) is a social-democratic political party in Greece. Until 2012, it ...

. The highest organ in Liberal Alliance is its bi-annual congress, which elects a seven member Coordination Committee. The CC then elects the President. Liberal Alliance's founding document is the Proclamation of Anavissos,Φιλελεύθερη Συμμαχία: στάση πολιτών - Ιδρυτική Πολιτική Διακήρυξη της Φιλελεύθερης Συμμαχίας
written on 28 April 2007. It contains a reference to

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. The symbol of Liberal Alliance is like @ but instead of 'a' it has the Greek

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letter, which is also the first letter of the word 'liberal' in the

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, while the dominating colours are

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and

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. Initially the logo was the head of

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, until the first party congress.

History

The party participated in the 2007 legislative election in Greece, where it tallied 0,1% of the popular vote, ranking 13th among 21 candidate parties. Its highest percentage was in the first Athens electoral prefecture, where it tallied 544 votes out of 337.000 cast, equaling 0,17%, while its worst percentage was in the prefecture of Pieria, which is the only prefecture where the party fielded no candidates. It also participated in the 2009 European Parliament elections, with an even lower tally of 0,08% of the popular vote, ranking 24th among 27 candidate parties. The results of the 2009 European Parliament election, considered as catastrophic, led the party to not participate in the 2009 general elections in Greece, held three months later. In the 2010 local elections Liberal Alliance participated through the 'Portokali' (meaning "orange" colour) movement in

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's 'Dikaioma stin poli' coalition, who won the mayorship of Athens. In the May 2012 election to the Hellenic Parliament, Liberal Alliance ran in electoral alliance with

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. It won 1.8% of the vote. In the June 2012 election, they additionally joined up with

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but with just 1.59% of the votes again did not manage to surpass the 3%

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. In January 2015, the Liberal Alliance suspended talks about a joint electoral list in the upcoming

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with social-liberal

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party. The aspired "front against the new two-party system of statists" did not fail on the "serious ideological differences" with To Potami, but on the grounds that the participation of Liberal Alliance's president Gregory Vallianatos had reportedly been ruled out by To Potami, which instead decided to team up with Liberal Alliance's 2012 partner,

People

The following people are associatedΦιλελεύθερη Συμμαχία: στάση πολιτών - Ποιοι είμαστε, τί επιδιώκουμε
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/ref> with Liberal Alliance: * President: Despoina Limniotaki * Former President: Makis Spyratos * Former President: Gregory Vallianatos * Former President: Giorgos Sarigiannidis * Former President:

Fotis Perlikos Fotis Tefos Perlikos ( el, Φώτης Περλικός; born 1979) was the president of Liberal Alliance, a small political party in Greece formed in 2007. Biography Perlikos was born in Piraeus, Greece. He has lived in Profitou Ilia, Nea Sm ...

References

External links

Liberal Alliance website
(in

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