Liberal Party (Gassasinia)

Social Liberal and Progressive Party
Leader	Ahmed al-Rashid
Founded	5th of February, 1951
Headquarters	52 Haroun Street, Jabiyah
Newspaper	The Marigic Times
Think tank	Liberal Economic Forum
Women's wing	Liberal Feminist Convention
LGBT Wing	LGBTQ+ Liberals
Ideology	• National Liberalism  • Anti-Communism  • Civic Nationalism  • Secularism  • Multiculturalism Factions  • Social Liberalism  • Neoliberalism  • Keynesianism  • Liberal Conservatism
Colours	Orange
Slogan	"For a Brighter Future"
Political position	Centre to Centre right
House of Representatives	55 / 150
Website
https://LiberalParty.ga

The Liberal Party, officially known as the Social Liberal and Progressive Party, is a centrist to centre-right political party in Gassasinia which has held power for much of Gassasinia's history since 1979. As of today, the Gassasinian Liberal Party is currently the largest party in government, ruling in a coalition with the Unionist Labour Party with 55 Members of Parliament in the House of Representatives.

The Liberal Party was formed in 1951 as a small splinter group of the now defunct Christian Democratic Party's left-wing by 12 Members of Parliament, who felt that the Christian Democratic Party's conservative and Christian-centric ideology was elitist and unsustainable, and that they would eventually tear Gassasinia apart between religious and economic lines.

The Liberal Party's policies are based on liberal ideas, believing in a strong free social market economy where the government intervenes to provide a welfare state to keep people out of destitution, along with combating anti-competitive practises to ensure a fair and competitive strong free market economy. Additionally, the Liberal Party holds strong social progressive ideals, having a progressive stance on social issues such as women's rights, LGBT+ rights and abortion.

The Liberal Party supports a civic nationalist stance by which Gassasinia is a unique sovereign nation made up of many different ethnicities and religions. Furthermore, the Liberal Party supports a pro-globalisation economic stance which supports greater participation in global trade while promoting a more careful and modest approach to international geopolitics and grand international alliances.

The Liberal Party is often considered by some as a dominant party by it's critics, who claim that the Liberal Party uses unfair tactics which give them an unfair ability to skew the democratic process. Amongst these tactics include media manipulation, social media bots, marginalisation of opposition parties, entrenchment of the party's ideology into the educational system, and even frivolous lawsuits, amongst others. However, observers have often noted that despite these accusations, Gassasinia is significantly lacking in many of the directly repressive qualities often found amongst authoritarian dominant-party states.

The Liberal Party is predominantly supported by those from the middle class, and older generations. The Liberal Party has been accused of exacerbating classist sentiments amongst Gassasinians by presenting working class Gassasinians as racist, uneducated and backwards.

Election History

Bold name denotes prime ministership

Year	Leader	Seats	Government
1953	Rita Ayanampudi	12 / 150	Opposition
1957	Rita Ayanampudi	15 / 150	Opposition
1961	Mounir Ayoub	30 / 150	Opposition
1965	Mounir Ayoub	35 / 150	Junior Partner in coalition with Christian Democrats
1969	Mounir Ayoub	30 / 150	Opposition
1975	Rita Ayanampudi	50 / 150	Equal coalition partner with Labour and Conservatives.
1979	Rita Ayanampudi	69 / 150	Senior Partner in coalition with Labour
1983	Farrokh Khoroushi	90 / 150	Government
1987	Farrokh Khoroushi	71 / 150	Government
1991	Mounir Ayoub	50 / 150	Senior Partner in coalition with Labour
1995	Mounir Ayoub	45 / 150	Opposition
1999	Mounir Ayoub	40 / 150	Opposition
2003	Edmond Ghulmiyyah	80 / 150	Government
2007	Khalil Barakat	94 / 150	Government
2011	Khalil Barakat	115 / 150	Government
2015	Ahmed al-Rashid	75 / 150	Government
2019	Ahmed al-Rashid	80 / 150	Senior Partner in coalition with Labour