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The Liberal Party of Geneva (), abbreviated PLG, was a
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political party in the
Canton of Geneva The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is one of the Cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons of the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of forty-five Municipality, municipalities, and the seat of the governme ...
. It was the cantonal branch of the
Liberal Party of Switzerland The Liberal Party of Switzerland () or Swiss Liberal Party (; ; ) was a political party in Switzerland with economically liberal policies. It was known as a party of the upper class. On 1 January 2009 it merged with the larger Free Democratic ...
until 1 January 2009, when the federal party merged with the Free Democratic Party to form
FDP.The Liberals FDP.The Liberals (, , , ) is a liberal political party in Switzerland. The party was formed on 1 January 2009, after two parties, the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD) and the smaller Liberal Party (LPS/PLS), united. In Vaud and Valais, the parti ...
. On 30 May 2011, the party merged with the Radical Party of Geneva – the Free Democrats' cantonal branch – to form a single cantonal branch of the FDP. It was the largest political party in the canton, holding twenty seats on the Grand Council at its dissolution. It participated in the
centre-right Centre-right politics is the set of right-wing politics, right-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre. It is commonly associated with conservatism, Christian democracy, liberal conservatism, and conservative liberalis ...
' Entente', with the Radicals and the
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. At the last legislative election, these three parties won 42 of the 100 seats on the council.
Pierre Muller Pierre Muller (1952 – 9 September 2022) was a Swiss politician who was a member of the government of the City of Geneva (''conseil administratif'') from 1995. As such, he held the rotating function of mayor In many countries, a mayor is th ...
was a member of the Liberal Party. During the November 2005 elections for the Conseil d'Etat, two candidates from the Liberal Party were competing. While
Mark Muller Mark Muller (born 26 August 1964 in Geneva) is a Switzerland, Swiss real estate lawyer and politician in the canton of Geneva. A member of the Parti Libéral Genevois, he has been a member of the Grand Council of Geneva, Grand Council, a parliam ...
was elected, the other candidate, Micheline Spoerri, who was already a member of the Conseil d'Etat, did not get elected. In the 2009 Grand Council election, the party lost three seats, but remained the largest party in the canton, with a total of twenty seats.


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Official website of the Parti Libéral Genevois
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Political parties in the canton of Geneva Defunct political parties in Switzerland Political parties disestablished in 2011