The Liberal Democratic Party (abbreviated to LDP or occasionally the Liberal Democrats) was a Lovian political party formed by the merger of the Lovian Democratic Party and the Liberal Union on April 23, 2011. The party had a centrist view on economics and a progressive view on social issues, with social liberalism at the core part of its platform. There were nine members of the 2012 First Congress from the LDP, down from a peak of fifteen in the 2011 Second Congress. The chairman of the party was William Krosby, the Speaker of the Congress and Governor of Kings at the time of disbandment. The party merged with the Liberal Arts Party and Lovian Alliance on October 21, 2012 to form the Social Liberal Party.