History
In the years immediately following independence liberalism became a major force, but since 2000 the major political grouping has split into the liberal democrats and mainline factions. Nowadays the liberals are divided in the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalna Demokraticka Partija, member LI), part of the left of center government coalition and the Liberal Party of Macedonia (Liberalna Partija na Makedonija, member ELDR), part of the right of center opposition coalition.
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