The largest Liberal Mayors Summit so far during the ALDE Party Congress in Madrid, Spain on 9 November 2018, calls on all liberal mayors around the world to help protect democracy from the rising trend of authoritarian, illiberal, anti-pluralist leaders.
With a majority of the world’s population now living in urban areas, city mayors have the power and the responsibility to strengthen the pillars of local democracy, and thus prevent authoritarian leaders from establishing vital roots in towns and cities.
