Active Social Liberal Parties and Organizations
In Europe, social liberal parties tend to be small or medium-sized centrist and center-left parties. Examples of successful European social liberal parties, which have participated in government coalitions at national or regional levels, are the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom, D66 in the Netherlands, and the Danish Social Liberal Party in Denmark. In continental European politics, social liberal parties are integrated in the ALDE group of the European Parliament, which is the third biggest group at the parliament and includes both social liberal parties and market liberal parties.
Giving an exhaustive list of social liberal parties worldwide is difficult, largely because political organisations are not always ideologically pure. Party ideologies often change over time. However, the following parties and organisations are usually accepted by peers or scholars as following social liberalism as a core ideology.
- Australia: Australian Democrats
- Belgium: Open VLD,Vivant
- Croatia: Istrian Democratic Assembly
- Czech Republic: Party for the Open Society (formerly Civic Movement)
- Denmark: Danish Social Liberal Party
- Estonia: Estonian Centre Party
- Faroe Islands: Self-Government Party
- Finland: Swedish People's Party in Finland
- France: Radical Party of the Left, Democratic Movement
- Italy: Faithful to Trentino
- Lithuania: Labour Party (Lithuania)
- Morocco: Citizens' Forces
- Myanmar (Burma): National Democratic Force
- Netherlands: Democrats 66,
- Norway: Liberal Party (Norway)
- Peru: Peru Possible
- Portugal: Movimento Liberal Social
- Russia: Russian Democratic Party "Yabloko"
- Slovenia: Positive Slovenia, Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, Zares – Social Liberals
- South Africa: Democratic Alliance (South Africa)
- Spain: Union, Progress and Democracy, Citizens – Party of the Citizenry
- Sweden: Liberal People's Party
- United Kingdom: Liberal Democrats
- United States: Democratic Party
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