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After cooperating with moderate elements of the Swiss People's Party since 2000, the Liberal Party had a joint slate with the Free Democratic Party in the 2003 federal election. [1] The party was the junior partner of the faction, with only 2.2% of the vote compared with the FDP's 17.3%.
1893: The moderate liberals established the Liberal Democrats (Liberaldemokraten), but most German-speaking liberals joined in 1894 the ⇒ Free Democratic Party of Switzerland 1913: The party is renamed Liberal Democratic Party ( Liberaldemokratische Partei )
In 1959, the Free Democrats joined the other major parties in agreeing the 'magic formula' to divide up the seats of the Federal Council, with the FDP permanently receiving two of the seven seats. After the 2003 elections , lawmakers of FDP and Liberal Party formed a common parliamentary group in the Federal Assembly .
Liberal Party of Switzerland (LPS/PLS) Classical liberalism: 1913–2009 merged to The Liberals: National Front: Fascism/nationalism: 1930s Eidgenössische Sammlung: National Movement of Switzerland (NBS) Nazism: 1940–1941 National Union: Fascism: 1932–1940 Progressive Organizations of Switzerland (POCH) Communism: 1969–1993 Republican ...
The party was formed in 2009 from the merger of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Liberal Party. The radical Free Democratic Party, also called the 'Radicals', was Switzerland's major establishment party. [10] Founded in 1894, the party's classical liberal predecessors had governed Switzerland outright for most of the 19th century, and ...
From 1959 until 2004, the seven-seat cabinet had comprised 2 Free Democrats, 2 Christian Democrats, 2 Social Democrats, and 1 Swiss People's Party, but in 2004, the Swiss People's Party took one seat from the Christian Democrats. In 2008 the Conservative Democratic Party split from the SVP, taking both of their Federal Council seats with them ...
The liberal Free Democratic Party of Switzerland was strong in the largely Protestant cantons and obtained the majority in the Federal Diet in the early 1840s. It proposed a new Constitution for the Swiss Confederation which would draw the several cantons into a closer relationship.
Free Democratic Party: Zürich: 5 Wilhelm Matthias Naeff (1802–1881) 1 January 1853 31 December 1853 Free Democratic Party: St. Gallen: 6 Friedrich Frey-Herosé (1801–1873) 1 January 1854 31 December 1854 Free Democratic Party: Aargau: 7 Jonas Furrer (1805–1861) 1 January 1855 31 December 1855 Free Democratic Party: Zürich: 8 Jakob ...