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Liberal Independent Group Grupo Independiente Liberal | |
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| Leader | Jesús Gil |
| Founder | Jesús Gil |
| Founded | 1991 (1991) |
| Dissolved | 2007 (2007) |
| Headquarters | Marbella,Spain |
| Ideology | Right-wing populism Conservatism Neoliberalism |
| Political position | Right-wing tofar-right |
TheLiberal Independent Group (Spanish:Grupo Independiente Liberal,GIL) was aright-wing Spanish political party, founded in 1991 by the businessmanJesús Gil y Gil who was mayor ofMarbella in theCosta del Sol, and convicted of corruption. "GIL", the acronym of the party's name in Spanish, is a play on words, as it references the surname of the party's founder, Jesús Gil.
GIL governed Marbella beginning in 1991 on a platform of fighting petty crime and carrying out public ornamental works in the city. At the same time, Marbella was known as a refuge for British, Italian andRussian crime lords. After Gil was removed by a Spanish tribunal on charges ofpolitical corruption,Julián Muñoz, (also known for his romance with singerIsabel Pantoja), assumed the mayoralty of the city. He was later ousted by GIL members supportingMarisol Yagüe Reyes with the help of a turncoatSpanish Socialist Workers' Party councillor who had been a vocal critic of corruption. In March 2006, Yagüe and most of her administration were brought to trial on charges of corruption concerning their management of urban development and planning permissions in Marbella. In April 2006, the Spanish government initiated procedures to forcibly dissolve the council, an unprecedented movement in the history of recent Spanish democracy. GIL also established a strong presence inEstepona,Ceuta andMelilla.
Gilismo ("gilism") has been identified as anitalianized populism and as example of theberlusconization of Spanish politics,[1] and along the political experiences ofJosé María Ruiz Mateos andMario Conde, as an example of protestary populism in Spain.[2]
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