Liberal Party (Greece)
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Liberal Party Κόμμα Φιλελευθέρων | |
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Founder | Eleftherios Venizelos |
Founded | 22 August 1910[1] Founded 112 years ago |
Dissolved | 1961 |
Preceded by | New Party (1873) |
Merged into | Center Union |
Ideology | Liberalism[2] (Imperialist)[3] National liberalism Greek nationalism[4] Republicanism Centrism Venizelism[2] |
Political position | Centre[5] |
The Liberal Party (
Since its founding, the party's emblem had been the anchor, similar to the one Venizelos had brought with him from Crete.[6]
History
Founded as the Xipoliton ("barefoot") party in Crete (then an autonomous region of the
During
The party was reformed after the war. By the 1950s, the Liberal Party had lost much of its support and it was eventually merged into the Centre Union, which went on to win the 1963 and 1964 elections. Throughout its existence, the Liberal Party sought to hinder the rise of the Communist Party of Greece which was the only real opposition to the Liberals on their most important electoral basis (the refugees of the New Lands, i.e., lands acquired by Greece following the Balkan Wars and World War I), sometimes with the use of anti-communist legislation.[7][8]
The Liberal Party merged into
In 1980, Eleftherios Venizelos' grandson Nikitas founded a new party under the same name that claims to be the continuation of the original party, see Liberal Party (Greece, modern).
Ideology
Representing the
Electoral results
Results, 1910–1958[9][10] (year links to election page) | ||||||||
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Year | Type of Election | Votes | % | Mandates | Status | |||
1910 | Parliamentary | No data | 307 / 362
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Government | ||||
1912 | No data | 146 / 181
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Government | |||||
May 1915 | No data | 189 / 316
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Government | |||||
Dec 1915 | Boycotted | 0 / 369
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Extra-parliamentary | |||||
1920 | 375,803 | ? | 118 / 369
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Opposition | ||||
1923 | No data | 250 / 398
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Government | |||||
1926 | 303,140 | 31.6 | 102 / 279
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Coalition | ||||
1928 | 477,502 | 46.9 | 178 / 250
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Government | ||||
1929 | Senatorial | 450,624 | 54.6 | 64 / 120
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Majority | |||
1932 | Parliamentary | 391,521 | 33.4 | 98 / 250
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Opposition (to Jan 1933) | |||
Coalition (from Jan 1933) | ||||||||
1932 | Senatorial | 142,575 | 39.5 | 16 / 30
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Majority | |||
1933 | Parliamentary | 379,968 | 33.3 | 80 / 248
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Opposition | |||
1935 | Boycotted | 0 / 300
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Extra-parliamentary | |||||
1936 | 474,651 | 37.3 | 126 / 300
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Opposition | ||||
1946 | 159,525 | 14.4 | 54 / 376
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Opposition | ||||
1950 | 291,083 | 17.2 | 56 / 263
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Coalition | ||||
1951 | 325,390 | 19.0 | 74 / 258
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Opposition | ||||
1956 | No data | 38 / 308
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Opposition | |||||
1958 | 795,445 | 20.7 | 36 / 300
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Opposition |
Prominent members
(Name, highest office as a party member, year)
- Eleftherios Venizelos, leader, Prime Minister (1910)
- Georgios Kafantaris, Prime Minister (1924)
- Andreas Michalakopoulos, Prime Minister (1924)
- Sophoklis Venizelos, Prime Minister (1944)
- Georgios Papandreou, Prime Minister (1946)
- MP(1946)
Leaders
- Eleftherios Venizelos, 1910–1936
- Themistoklis Sophoulis, 1936–1948
- Sophoklis Venizelos, 1948–1961
Splits of Liberal Party
- 15 April 1922 - 8 May 1929 : Democratic Union.
- Leader : Alexandros Papanastasiou
- In 1929 the party was renamed the Agricultural and Labour Party [11]
See also
- Venizelism
- Eleftherios Venizelos
- History of Modern Greece
References
- ISBN 9789602010655. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ^ a b Hatzivassiliou, Evanthis (2010), "Greek Liberalism in the Twentieth Century Dilemmas of Research", The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2010, Springer, p. 124
- ^ Varnava, Andrekos (2012), "British and Greek Liberalism and Imperialism", Liberal Imperialism in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 229–235,
Venizelist liberalism and imperialism not only was connected to British liberalism and liberal approaches to imperialism, but was also a product of it. Although looking East for territory, Venizelist imperialism looked to unite the "unredeemed Greeks" living in the East under an "orientalist" pre-modern system with the Europe that was (or would be) Modern Greece - western, modern and liberal.
- ^ Roudometof, Victor (2002), Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question, Praeger Publishers, p. 98
- ISBN 9783642123740. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ISBN 9780748633647.
- ISBN 9780415979825. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
- ^ Δελτίο Κέντρου Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών. Vol. 9. To Kentro. 1992. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
- ^ "Register of Senators and Deputies" (PDF). National Printing House, Hellenic Parliament. 1977. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- ^ "Register of Senators and Deputies" (PDF). National Printing House, Hellenic Parliament. 1977. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
- ^ Εισηγείται στο δεύτερο συνέδριο του κόμματος στη Θεσσαλονίκη την οριστική αντικατάσταση του τίτλου «Δημοκρατική Ένωσις» από τον τίτλο «Αγροτικόν και Εργατικόν Κόμμα» (Proposes to the second party congress in Thessalonikithe definitive replacement of the title "Democratic Union" by the "Agricultural and Labour Party".) Nikolaou, Serafeim (2008). Αλέξανδρος Παπαναστασίου. Athens: The Hellenic Parliament Foundation. p. 4.