The Estonian Liberal Democratic Party (Estonian: Eesti Liberaaldemokraatlik Partei), abbreviated to ELDP, was a social liberal[1] political party in Estonia that existed between 1990 and 1994.
[1] The ELDP was granted observer membership of the Liberal International on 4 October 1990:[2] the first eastern European party to be admitted to the LI.
[1] Led by Paul-Eerik Rummo,[3] the party ran as part of the right-wing, radically pro-reform 'Fatherland' electoral alliance in the 1992 election, and won six of the bloc's 29 seats in the 101-seat Riigikogu.
Rummo and Kranich resigned from the government and the ELDP withdrew from the Fatherland group in parliament on 14 June 1993, when the party's proposal for a secret vote of no confidence in Laar was defeated.
[5] The Liberal Democratic Party joined Siim Kallas' (then president of the Bank of Estonia) initiative group which gathered liberals hitherto uninvolved in politics, to form on 13 November 1994[6] the Estonian Reform Party.