Alliance for Progress and Renewal
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Liberal Conservative Reformers
Liberal-Konservative Reformer |
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| Abbreviation | LKR |
| Chairman | Christian Kott |
| Founded | 19 July 2015 |
| Split from | Alternative for Germany |
| Membership (2015) | 2,000 |
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Liberal conservatism Euroscepticism Economic liberalism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | European Conservatives and Reformists |
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| State Parliaments |
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The Liberal Conservative Reformers (German: Liberal-Konservative Reformer, LKR) is a conservative political party in Germany which was known from July 2015 to November 2016 as ALFA.
The party was established in July 2015 as a split from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) led by former AfD spokesman Bernd Lucke. It was founded as the Alliance for Progress and Renewal (Allianz für Fortschritt und Aufbruch, ALFA), but changed its name in November 2016 after litigation with the pro-life movement "Aktion Lebensrecht für Alle" (Action Right to Live for Everybody) which uses the same abbreviation (Alfa).
The party is represented by five MEPs in the European Parliament (as members of the European Conservatives and Reformists group) and three members of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen due to their formal withdrawal from the AfD.
The party founding was preceded by months of power struggle between Bernd Lucke and Frauke Petry for AfD party leadership, the latter being leader of the party's national-conservative wing. In the course of the dispute Lucke and leading AfD members with liberal-conservative and economic liberal orientations founded the association Weckruf 2015 (wake-up call 2015) out of concern for a perceived right-wing populist tendency in the AfD.
At an extraordinary party convention in Essen on 4 July 2015, Lucke was defeated in the election for chairman by his opponent Petry, who received 60% of the vote. The following week, 5 AfD MEPs exited the party on 7 July 2015, and Lucke announced his resignation from the party on 8 July, leading to the formation of the ALFA party.
ALFA was formally founded on 19 July 2015 at a closed inaugural meeting of 70 people in Kassel, Hesse where statutes and a party platform were approved and Bernd Lucke MEP was elected chairman. Also selected as its foundation were its deputy chairmen was Bernd Kölmel MEP, Gunther Nickel and Reiner Rohlje, and the general secretary Ulrike Trebesius MEP.
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