Liberty Party (Liberia)

The Liberty Party (LP) is a political party in Liberia. It fielded candidates in the 11 October 2005 elections.

LP candidate Charles Brumskine placed third in the presidential poll, winning 13.9% of the vote. The party won three seats in the Senate and nine in the House of Representatives.

In October 2010, the Liberty Party agreed to create a coalition with the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), the largest party in the Legislature. The deal would have seen the two parties field a single list of candidates in the 2011 legislative elections and a single ticket for the 2011 presidential election made up of Brumskine and the CDC's standard-bearer, George Weah.^[1] However, this deal ultimately fell apart, and the Liberty Party announced in February 2011 that Senator Franklin Siakor had been chosen as Brumskine's running mate for the election.^[2]

References

↑ Binda, Stephen (October 25, 2010). "Weah, Brumskine Vow to Run on Same Ticket". Daily Observer. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
↑ "Brumskine-Siakor: Another Dream Ticket?". The 1847 Post. February 9, 2011.

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Political parties in Liberia

Parties with Legislative Representation	Alliance for Peace and Democracy Congress for Democratic Change Liberia Transformation Liberty Movement for Progressive Change National Democratic National Union for Democratic Progress National Patriotic National Reformation Unity

Parties with no Legislative Representation	All Liberia Coalition Alternative National Congress Freedom Alliance Party Labor Party Liberia Education and Development Liberia Equal Rights Liberia National Union Liberian Destiny Liberian People's United People's

Defunct or Renamed Parties	Free Democratic Party Liberia Unification Liberian Action Movement for Justice in Africa National Reformation New Deal Movement People's Unification True Whig

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