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LI-Issue 159 - 11/11/2009
LI Congress elects new President and BureauOn
30 October, the approximately 300 assembled delegates of the 56th Congress of Liberal International elected the new Bureau
of Liberal International. Hans van Baalen MEP (ALDE-VVD) was elected to succeed Lord Alderdice as President of Liberal International.
Juli Minoves from Andorra was elected as the successor of Hans van Baalen as Deputy President. Newly elected Vice Presidents
on the Bureau include Senator Cristian David (PNL Romania), Jelko Kacin MEP from LDS Slovenia, and Robert Woodthorpe-Browne
(Lib Dems, UK). Dzhevdet Chakarov MP (MRF Bulgaria), Wolfgang Gerhardt MP (FDP -Germany and President of the Friedrich Naumann
Foundation for Liberty), and Bi-Khim Hsiao (DPP Taiwan) will continue to serve as Vice-Presidents. Treasurers Josep Soler
(LiD-Catalonia) and Silver Meikar MP (Reform Party of Estonia) will also continue their mandate. Newly elected President of
Liberal International Hans van Baalen commented that “The nature of politics is not analogous to a friendly game of
tennis — rather it is like a rugby match, we should not back down from controversy and confrontation. Liberals
have to be on the offensive in the rapidly expanding developed world and must emerge as those best equipped to defend civil
rights and the free market'. For the full speech please refer here.
back to top LI welcomes new member partiesLiberal International is proud to announce
the enlargement of the liberal family with seven new observer member parties. The congress participants at the LI 56th Congress
in Cairo approved the applications of the seven new member parties to be observer members at the administrative session on
31 October. Liberal International congratulates the Singapore Democratic Party (Singapore), The National
League for Democracy - Liberated Areas (Burma), Civic Will Party (Mongolia), El Ghad Party
(Egypt), the Liberal Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and SLS (Kosovo). All new
observer members received unanimous support from Liberal International delegates during the vote. Liberal International also
congratulates the Democratic Front Party (Egypt), Radicali Italiani (Italy), the
Democrat Party (Thailand) and Partido Justicia Nacional (Peru) on confirmation of their new Full
Membership status during the administrative session of the Cairo Congress. LI looks forward to a promising partnership with
all the new members in the international liberal family.
back to top Liberal International members agree on resolutionsAt their 56th Congress, the member parties of
the Liberal International agreed upon a new The World Today resolution as well as a variety of other resolutions that were
tabled by the member parties. These resolutions included themes like the recent local elections in Russia, the promotion and
protection of human rights, privacy, sustainable development, the global financial crisis and energy efficiency. As a service
to the member parties that was requested by various delegates, the secretariat will soon provide the resolutions in French
as well. For the resolutions refere here.
Les résolutions finales seront disponibles en français dans les prochaines semaines
back to top Prominent Liberal Politicians address LI CongressOutgoing LI President Lord Alderdice
welcomed the over 250 delegates of the 56th Congress of Liberal International by providing a framework for the ensuing discussions,
'As we look forward to 'education in the 21st'century' we can look forward with confidence because we know that the principles
we believe in, the policies we develop and the relationships we have with each other are the things that give us hope in a
world that is threatened by crisis and conflict.' Delegates of the 56th Congress of Liberal International were also welcomed
by a video greeting from the Thai Prime Minister (and leader of the Democrat Party) Abhisit Vejjajiva.
'With the joining of the Democrat Party into the international, liberal family, we hope to engage ourselves with Liberal International
in the future even more closely' said Prime Minister Vejjajiva. Anwar Ibrahaim, former Deputy Prime Minister
of Malaysia and current leader of the opposition continued in stating that, 'Liberalism equips a citizen to know that in the
mixture of beauty and ugliness, virtue and baseness in which a person finds him or herself in this world, he or she must want
to be on the side of the beautiful and the virtuous.'
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un liberale americano non sarebbe chiamato liberale in nessun Paese europeo; lo chiameremmo un radicale di sinistra. Viceversa, un liberale italiano negli Stati Uniti sarebbe definito un conservatore.[1] » Giovanni Sartori-Columbia University (Courtesy Wikipedia) Il liberalismo è la teoria politica e la filosofia della libertà. Storicamente il liberalismo nasce come ideale che si affianca
all'azione della borghesia nel momento in cui essa combatte contro le monarchie assolute e i privilegi dell'aristocrazia a partire dalla fine del XVIII secolo. L'esito di questo scontro tra le due classi porta alla
costituzione dello Stato liberale. Il liberalismo è probabilmente la dottrina che ha più influenzato la concezione moderna dello
Stato e del suo rapporto con la società. Si può dire che abbia contribuito a definire quasi
tutte le altre dottrine politiche: si parla infatti di "liberaldemocrazia" in modo generico per indicare una moderna
democrazia che non sia basata esclusivamente sulla volontà della
maggioranza ma - anche e soprattutto - sul rispetto delle minoranze.
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