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The Liberal Alliance (Greek: Φιλελεύθερη Συμμαχία Fileleftheri Simmakhia ) is a libertarian political party in Greece founded February of 2007. Its purpose is to cover the political ground between what it considers to constitute a right-conservative New Democracy and the social democratic PASOK.
The highest organ in Liberal Alliance is its congress, which elects a new president every 2 years and a 15-member administration committe.
Liberal Alliance's founding document is the Proclamation of Anavisos, written on 28 April 2007. It contains a reference to Victor Hugo.
Liberal Alliance uses extensively the video sharing site YouTube to publicise its advertisements. It has also created web graphics to allow other websites and blogs to link to its site.
The symbol of Liberal Alliance is the head of Adamantios Korais. Another logo shows the Greek phi letter, which is also the first letter of the word Liberal in the Greek language, while the dominating colours are purple and yellow.
People
The following people are associated with Liberal Alliance:
- President: Fotis Perlikos, doctor
- Vice President: Tasos Avrantinis, solicitor
- Member: Antonis Vlisidis, economist and employee of Bank of Greece
- Member: Vivian Euthimiopoulou, communications consultant
- Member: Dionisis Katranitsas, entrepreneur (blog)
- Vice President: Manolis Manoledakis, employee of European Commission
- Paulos Msaouel
- Elpida Moraitou
- Member: Thanasis Papandropoulos, journalist
- General Secretary: Dimitris Skalkos, international politics specialist, consultant in the Greek Ministry of Agriculture, blog
- Ntinos Stergidis
- Member: Stratis Katakos, biologist and teacher of middle education
- Member: Kostas Koukopoulos, informatics worker
- Member: Georgios Saridanidis, mathematician, blog
- Member: Hristos Stergiou, entrepreneur
- Member: Spiros Hatiras, entrepreneur
- Member: Georgios Shinarakis, prefessor of noematics and entrepreneur
Political positions
The Liberal Alliance is a classical liberal party, championing personal liberty and human rights in both the political, social and economic sectors. Some of its positions are:
- Withdrawal of the state from every kind of business activity and the reduction in the size of government and public sector.
- Decriminalization of drug use.
- Full separation of church and state.
- Abolition of the (compulsory in Greece) military draft.
- Establishment of English as a "second official language" in Greece.
- Abolition of permanent employment in the civil sector.
- Tax reduction.
- Permission for non-Goverment controlled universities to exist.
- Privatization of state run public services.
- Respect for the individuality of citizens.
- Abolition of the state-run, defined benefit scheme to a defined contribution pension system managed entirely by the private sector under supervision by a specialized government superintendency.
References
- http://el.wikipedia.org/%CE%A6%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%8D%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B7_%CE%A3%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%87%CE%AF%CE%B1
- http://www.greekliberals.net/civilaction/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=51
- http://www.greekliberals.net/civilaction/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=104
- http://www.perlikos.gr/liberal-alliance/
See also
- Libertarianism
- List of libertarian political parties
- Contributions to liberal theory
- Liberalism worldwide
- Liberalism in Greece
- The Liberals (Greece), greek party
External links
- Liberal Alliance website (in Greek)
- e-rooster Liberal blog in Greek and English
- Thessaloniki Liberals (in Greek)
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