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ELDR Family
The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR Party) brings together 57 political parties with common liberal, democratic and reform ideals. In 2007 the European Liberal Democrat political family achieved many successes in the various elections around the EU member states, bringing the total number of liberal democrat voters to 30 million Europe-wide.
Five EU prime ministers, one third of the members of the European Commission, 75 MEPs in the ALDE Group of the European Parliament and ministers in more than 20 governments in Europe belong to the liberal family.
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Yabloko runs in the next Russian elections
 Regional and municipal elections will take place in Russia on 11th October. YABLOKO, ELDR member party, will present a list for the Moscow City Duma headed by Sergei Mitrokhin (in the picture), leader of the party and including Eugeni Bunimovich. “Now we are steadily progressing in the election campaign,” commented Mitrokhin who also deplored the fact that opposition parties continue to be unfairly treated in terms of a lack of access to the mass media in Russia. Elections to the regional legislative bodies will be held in Moscow, Tula region and Mari El Republic where citizens will elect municipal heads and deputies of local self-governing bodies. Municipal elections will be held in Ingushetia, where voters will for first time vote in such elections ever in this region.
For more information please see http://www.eng.yabloko.ru/Press/2009/0828ingush.html and http://www.eng.yabloko.ru/Elections/regions/moscow-2009.html.
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Germany - FDP winner in regional elections 
The German Liberals were the clear winner in the 3 regional elections that took place on 30th August in the states of Saxony, Thuringia and Saarland.
The party nearly doubled their results in the 3 federal states to 10%, 7,6% and 9,2% respectively, making the FDP the only party that gained votes in each state.
A center-right coalition in Saxony now seems possible. Read more.
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Olofsson: Green jobs - a solution to combat recession
While Barroso, along with Sarkozy, Brown and Merkel envisage new regulations for financial markets and more influence over businesses, Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Enterprise, Maud Olofsson (in the picture), has called for a "new vision" to tackle the recession.
Referring to the possibilities of creating new jobs in the fields of renewable technologies and research as part of the process of tackling climate change, Olofsson commented "While I see the climate crisis as the big threat for the future I also see it as a golden opportunity – she intervened during a debate in the European parliament - I think here you have - not the answer - but some of the answers to how you can give hope to people that are unemployed."
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ELDR members - upcoming national congresses
ELDR will attend the Italia dei Valori’s Congress in Vasto – Italy, from 18 - 20 September as well as the Liberal Democrats’ Autumn Conference 2009 in Bournemouth - UK, from 19 - 23 September.
ELDR will have an information stand in the exhibition area of the two congresses. Further information about these two events are available on the parties’ websites: www.libdems.org.uk; and http://www.italiadeivalori.it
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Forthcoming events 2009-2010
The 56th Congress of the Liberal International will be held in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday 29 October in Alexandria. The Congress itself will be open in the morning of Friday 30 October 2009, and close during the evening of Saturday the 31st of October.
In 2009 there will be elections to the Storting and the Sami Assembly in Norway, the 14th of September and to the Bundestag in Germany, the 27th of September.
In 2010 presidency elections will be held in Croatia. The date is between 20th of January to 3rd of February.
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