Alliance of Democrats
| Alliance of Democrats | |
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 Alliance of Democrats logo |
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| Formation | 2005 |
| Type | Federation |
| Purpose/focus | Loose partnership of centrist political parties |
| Location | Brussels, Washington, D.C. |
| Region served | Worldwide |
| Membership | 42 |
| Co-chaired | François Bayrou Francesco Rutelli Ellen Tauscher |
| Parent organization | United States Democratic Party European Democratic Party (EDP) Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats |
| Budget | USD $1.7 million (2008) |
| Website | http://www.allianceofdemocrats.org |
The Alliance of Democrats is a loose partnership of parties all around the world, that was started by the United States Democratic Party, the European Democratic Party (EDP) and the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD). After the EDP's first political meeting in Rome in February 2005, the parties established the Alliance with offices in Brussels and Washington, DC.
The Alliance is not a true political international in the model of the Socialist International and presently unites parties positioning themselves between social-democrats and conservatives. While the Alliance has not published an official manifesto, it mainly consists of political parties that are broadly speaking centrist or centre-left. What has been published by the Alliance, however, seems to point in the direction of a more right-wing stance compared to the Liberal International on issues of international trade deregulation and foreign policy and more to the left of it on economic policy and welfare.[1]
Members of the Alliance include both members of the Centrist Democrat International (such as the Christian Democrat Party of Chile and the Democratic Union of Catalonia) and the Liberal International (such as most members of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats), as well as former members of Socialist International (the Indian National Congress), Israel's relatively new Kadima party, and conservative parties such as the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia and the Democratic Party of Serbia, which is also member of the International Democrat Union.
The Alliance is co-chaired by François Bayrou, Francesco Rutelli and Ellen Tauscher, while since 2008 Gianni Vernetti, who is also co-president of the Italian Liberal Group, is the Alliance's coordinator.[2]
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[edit] Members
- Others:
Liberal Party of Andorra
Christian Democrat Party of Chile
Democratic Front Party
Democratic Party
Indian National Congress
Kadima
Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq
Democratic Party of Japan
Democratic Party
Maldivian Democratic Party
Senegalese Democratic Party
Democratic Party of Serbia
Democratic Union of Catalonia
Democratic Alliance
Policy Network
Broad Front
Notable individual members:
Shukria Barakzai (Afghan politician and Muslim feminist)- Pasqual Maragall (former Catalonia Generalitat President)
Ona Juknevičienė (EDP member EMP)
Paweł Piskorski (EMP, Civic Platform-Freedom Union and EDP)
Yolande Mukagasana (writer, witness to the genocide in Rwanda)
[edit] Leadership
- Co-Chairs: François Bayrou, Francesco Rutelli and Ellen Tauscher (2005–...)
- Coordinator: Gianni Vernetti (2008–...)
[edit] Notes
- ^ For a New Alliance of Democrats
- ^ Board of Directors, Alliance of Democrats
- ^ The United States Democratic Party is also indirectly affiliated to the Liberal International, the Socialist International and the Centrist Democrat International through the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. The Democratic National Committee (whose leader from 2005 to 2009, Howard Dean, is personally keen on the Socialist International, see Dean: i socialdemocratici? Sono la metà del Pd Usa (Italian), Frenda Angela, 22 April 2007, Corriere dela Sera), or the Democratic Party itself, are however not directly affiliated with any of these organisations, or indeed with any political international or alliance.
