The Liberal Party (; PL) was a liberal political party in Spain founded in 1976.

History

The PL was initially scheduled to contest the

1977 Spanish general election A General elections in Spain, general election was held in Spain on Wednesday, 15 June 1977, to elect the members of the Spanish . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as all 207 seats in the Senate of Spain, S ...

within

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's Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) platform, but on 8 May 1977, the party announced that it would withdraw from the UCD and would not be contesting the upcoming election. It would then rejoin the UCD after the

1979 Spanish general election A General elections in Spain, general election was held in Spain on Thursday, 1 March 1979, to elect the members of the 1st . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as all 208 seats in the Senate of Spain, Senate. ...

and until 1983, when it aligned itself with the

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(AP), the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Union (UL). On 22 December 1984, the latter merged into the Liberal Party. These three parties formed the People's Coalition for the 1986 election. In 1989, the party, along with AP and PDP, merged to form the new People's Party (PP).

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, now a leading PP figure, was a Liberal member.

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

References

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