History of Liberal Alliance

The Liberal Alliance is a liberal and centre-right party in Holy Luthori Empire. Here is the party history.

History
The Liberal Alliance was founded, in it's current shape, in 3795, although the party counts 2471 as it's "birthday". This because of it's common base in Adlerberg and it's connection to the Duke of Adlerberg, which has been a fact since, at least, late 2500's. The four generations parties also symbolizes the House of Adlerberg's ideological journey in to the political centre. The current Liberal Alliance still holds close connections to Luthori Employers Association.

3700's
The Holy Luthori Empire had in the late 3700's a bad situation in many ways. The economy was in a crisis and regression since the 3750's, this because of that women were entitled none or few working rights. Some branches of the economy still applied to slavery! The Employers Bureau in Luthori fought an uneven battle against the omnipresent and reactionary state, which was, in many ways, steered by an exclusive group of aristocrats and bureacrats with inherited positions. And Luthori, officially a democracy, strembled under this aristocratic semi-democratic governance.

The political left, with their socialists and left-minded liberals have for hundreds of years been oppressed and persecuted and almost extincted. In the Business and Industry more classical liberal and liberal conservative ideas had been strong for decades. And in 3789 the old Employers Assocation Party, subsequently Liberal Alliance where restarted to get more liberal influence in the Holy Imperial Diet. This showed to be a genious move from the Business and Industry and the EAP got over 80% of the legislature in the 3790 election, and this ensured of course the LA a majority of the cabinet posts.

And for the coming four years some sort of Liberal Revolution followed. The Liberal Alliance with their partyleaderEdith Gripenwald introduced a plan to raise up the Luthorian economy as well as oppressed citizens. The nobility's power was circumscribed but not removed entirely. Women's working rights and right to divorce was introduced for the first time in the Luhorian history for many hundreds of years. And the semi-fascist slavery system was scrapped as well as religious compulsury features in the society. The LA and Edith Gripenwald was greetad as saviours by many Luthorians even if the old system still had strong support in the masses.

3800's
The following two partyleaders Rudolf Bultmann and Denise Silverhielm were put in a completely different context different from Gripenwald. The new, liberal, and permissive society Gripenwald hade created nourished new political movements and the last year before Gripenwald's political retirement many new libertarian, socialist and conservative parties popped up all around the country. The party's dominant position was threatened and during Bultmann's leadership the party slowly faded away to a party around 10% when Silverhielm raised to power in the party, who actually managed to restore some of the old electorate. Her social liberal politics angered some of the more stern classical liberals in the party and she had quite a lot of opponents in her own party.

When Carl Klingspor became partyleader, the Liberal Alliance was somewhat scattered after a bad election, and the right wing in the party took their chance. A new election, after just two years, made the party stronger in the parliament and Klingspors popularity increased. He was made Minister of Finance and Silverhielm was, this time, obstructered from the Cabinet. Klingspor had the muscles to do this, this time. Silverhielm retired and Klingspor's power was now at it's height. After a while, new, more social liberal members flocked to the party and the members base were slightly offset to the left. And traditional right wing districts in the party was couped. And in 3870, Klingspor had no choice but to change his agenda, and a fully social liberal transformation is probably to come during the 70's.

In the early election of 3870 Klingspor could'nt turn the polls before it was to late. The party lost 7 mandates and went down to 9,4% of the parliament. Just a month later Klingspor resigned and was succeeded by the particularly more social liberal Philip Warden. He started a quick metamorphosis regarding the party's agenda, logo and appearence. All titles were scrapped in documents and on ballots lists and a slightly inspired qouta to promote women in the party organization was introduced. He picked his team carefully around him and made sure to only posess social liberal advisors. All these changes angered the business and Employers Organizations but they realized that a change was needed.

When the party downcrashed in the 3878 and the 3880 elections it became more and more obvious that the social liberal experiment had failed. Philip Warden was removed and the runner-up of the Partyleader election of Liberal Alliance 3879, Annica Canning was made partyleader with voting numbers 160-39 in late 3880. She saw it like she was given mandate in changing the party's profile into a more centre-right position.

Canning turned out to be an extremely skilled and succesful partyleader gaining seats in several elections and kept places in the Cabinet for a long while. During her era the party rose up to be 2nd or 3rd party in the nation.

3900's
When the new century dawned Canning was eager to leave politics, not becoming one of all those partyleaders who waited one election too long. The business related Ewald Gripenstedt was appointed having a hard time beeing a partyleader and Minister of Finance at the same time. The current economical depression was blamed on Gripenstedt. The 3905 election was a total collapse which almost meant annihilation for the party. The partyleader was sacked the same night and an acting dito was elected. With only 12 seats in the Diet the assortment of candidates were lame. But the year after Gina Dirwany was choosed in front of Ribbing and de Haviland and was made partyleader. She accepted a place as Minister of Finance in the new right wing cabinet. Even if some social liberal districts supported her candidacy she soon dissappointed them when she accepted the right wing cabinet. Even if Girwany had some starting success, after the 3911 snap election, the party was almost annihilated crashing down to only 8 seats in the Diet. The National Board was almost paralyzed by this because they had counted with a better election than the last before. Then Dirwany and Parliamentary Group Leader James Burlington agreed on a castling where they swapped positions. Dirwany became Group Leader in the Diet and Burlington was made Party Leader.

Burlington lead the party further right aligning to conservative and nationalist movements in the nation. Many elections meant small increases for the party but in January 3926 he succeeded entirely well when the party went up to 23% winning 81 mandates in the parliament.