Social_Liberal_Movement

Social Liberal Movement

Social Liberal Movement

Swiss political party

The Social Liberal Movement (German: Sozial-Liberale Bewegung, SLB; French: Mouvement socio-libéral, MSL; Italian: Movimento social-liberale, MSL) is a social conservative[1] party in Switzerland. Founded in 2011, the SLB has one member of the National Council.

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The party was founded by Samuel Schmid on 23 April 2011.[2] Schmid, a member of the Grand Council of Aargau originally elected for the right-wing Federal Democratic Union, was joined in June 2011 by Ricardo Lumengo, a member of the National Council originally elected for the centre-left Social Democratic Party.

The party has branches in Aargau, Bern, and Zurich, and claims to have hundreds of members.[3]

The party failed to have any representatives elected at the 2011 federal election; it won 0.5% of the vote in Aargau and 0.3% of the vote in Bern in that election.

Footnotes

  1. [1]
    Foppa, Daniel (23 April 2011), "Und noch eine soziale und liberale Partei", Tagesanzeiger (in German), retrieved 3 Sep 2011
  2. [2]
    "Grossrat Samuel Schmid gründet eine neue Partei". Aargauer Zeitung (in German). 23 April 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
  3. [3]
    "Fédérales 2011: Lumengo en lice pour le Mouvement socio-libéral". Tribune de Genève (in French). 16 June 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2011.


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