Liberal Citizens Action

Liberal Citizens Action Acción Ciudadana Liberal
Abbreviation	ACL
President	José María de Areilza
Founded	September 27, 1977 (1977-09-27)
Dissolved	January 20, 1979 (1979-01-20)
Merger of	Liberal Party Liberal Progressive Party Galician Democratic Party
Succeeded by	People's Alliance
Ideology	Liberalism
Political position	Centre-right
Colors	Orange
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Liberal Citizens Action (Spanish: Acción Ciudadana Liberal; ACL) was a political party in Spain at the time of its transition to democracy. ACL emerged from the Liberal Federation (Spanish: Federación Liberal), an alliance of five parties, in 1977.^[1] The president of the party was José María de Areilza, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1975 to 1976.^[2] Areilza had left Adolfo Suarez's Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD).

In the 1979 elections ACL was part of the Democratic Coalition, together with Manuel Fraga's People's Alliance (AP). Areilza was elected deputy in Madrid.

Shortly afterwards, ACL merged with the AP.

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

Election	Leader	Votes	%	#	Seats		Outcome	Notes
					Congress	Senate
1979	José María de Areilza	1,094,438	6.08	#4	2 / 350	0 / 207	UCD minority	Within Democratic Coalition

References

1. "La Federación Liberal pretende integrar a todos los grupos de esta ideología". El País (in Spanish). 28 October 1977. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. "Areilza, presidente de la Federación Liberal". El País (in Spanish). 22 December 1977. Retrieved 6 January 2020.