Favorite European liberal party

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Probably VVD followed by FDP

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Danish Venstre > VVD > FDP > LREM > C's > Swedish Liberals > Norwegian Venstre > NEOS > D66 > Lib Dems.

Don't think Finnish Center really qualify as Liberals.

Yeah I agree Venstre are probably the best liberal party in Europe, for me it's them or Mouvement Réformateur and the other one is second. Open VLD are OK to and would probably be my third choice.

Yeah even though they tend to be classed as ''liberal'' in practice the Finnish Centre Party is a centrist agrarian Party, they probably would have more in common with Christian Democrats than they would with liberals, more than anything they're probably classed as liberal (this is a hunch, I can't say for sure) because they aren't an elitist party and historically they were republican (to the contrary of the National Coalition Party).

At anyrate, I'd prefer the Finnish Centre Party to the others here.

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Of course Danish Venstre were historically also an agrarian party (and they are still the farmers' party, like the CDA in the Netherlands), but they have a liberal profile that KESK simply do not have, if I am not mistaken. I think in terms of preferred policies the National Coalition Party are very close to Danish Venstre, the VVD and Cameronite Tories, and they would have been my second preference after Danish Venstre had they been included in this poll (but that is rightly not the case as they are no liberals).

Added MR and Open Vld to my post. MR is quite good in the awful hellscape that is Walloon politics; I have a less high opinion of Open Vld.

Oh I know they have a reputation for being liberal, but from what I've seen (correct me if I'm wrong of course), KOK seems to be both more socially and economically (in the European sense of course) than KESK, so other than for historical reasons it seems a bit odd to me, but afterwards I'm no expert on Scandinavian politics.

Yep, and MR will probably end up being the big tent right wing party in Wallonia, as the CdH (ex-PSC) have been falling apart for a while now. Unlike in Flanders where you arguably have three more or less mainstream right of centre parties (NVA, CD&V and Open VLD; off subject but being a French speaker with strong personal ties to Wallonia, even if they're probably in terms of most policies the party I'd agree with most, I could not support NVA due to their Separatism, so I'd support CD&V). Previously I would have been a PSC supporter in Wallonia but I'd have switched to the MR after the PSC's name change to CdH and their shift to the left, and the PP Never managed to take off so if you're right of centre in Wallonia there aren't many choices other than MR.

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Of course Danish Venstre were historically also an agrarian party (and they are still the farmers' party, like the CDA in the Netherlands), but they have a liberal profile that KESK simply do not have, if I am not mistaken. I think in terms of preferred policies the National Coalition Party are very close to Danish Venstre, the VVD and Cameronite Tories, and they would have been my second preference after Danish Venstre had they been included in this poll (but that is rightly not the case as they are no liberals).

Added MR and Open Vld to my post. MR is quite good in the awful hellscape that is Walloon politics; I have a less high opinion of Open Vld.

Oh I know they have a reputation for being liberal, but from what I've seen (correct me if I'm wrong of course), KOK seems to be both more socially and economically (in the European sense of course) than KESK, so other than for historical reasons it seems a bit odd to me, but afterwards I'm no expert on Scandinavian politics.

Yep, and MR will probably end up being the big tent right wing party in Wallonia, as the CdH (ex-PSC) have been falling apart for a while now. Unlike in Flanders where you arguably have three more or less mainstream right of centre parties (NVA, CD&V and Open VLD; off subject but being a French speaker with strong personal ties to Wallonia, even if they're probably in terms of most policies the party I'd agree with most, I could not support NVA due to their Separatism, so I'd support CD&V). Previously I would have been a PSC supporter in Wallonia but I'd have switched to the MR after the PSC's name change to CdH and their shift to the left, and the PP Never managed to take off so if you're right of centre in Wallonia there aren't many choices other than MR. I love Wallonia but at anyrate their politics are terrible.

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Regarding the Finnish parties, it's telling that when gay marriage was passed in the parliament a few years ago, 30 of the 36 Centre MPs voted against it. NCP's MPs voted mostly in favour.

Absolutely, that's what I was getting to when I said NCP was more liberal than Centre