Liberal Appeal

The Liberal Appeal (Dutch: Liberaal Appèl, LA) was a Flemish conservative-liberal political party.

Founded on 22 March 2002 by the liberal MEP Ward Beysen (1941-2005) as a secession of the VLD, mostly in Antwerp.

It took part, with a limited number of votes (less than 0.5%) under the 5% electoral threshold, at the May 2003 federal elections.

On 14 January 2005 Ward Beysen committed suicide, an event that created doubts over the party's future.

On 7 November 2005 the party's leader, Jacques Kerremans, met his VLD counterpart Bart Somers in view of an electoral cartel for the municipal elections of 8 October 2006, and the reintegration of Liberaal Appèl into the VLD began at the local level.