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== Formation == The party was preceded by the [[Progressive Party (South Africa)|Progressive Party]] as the liberal opposition to the [[National Party (South Africa)|National Party]]. While the main opposition [[United Party (South Africa)|United Party]] contained liberal factions, the PP had for many years been the only purely liberal party represented in parliament. A realignment began when liberal members of the UP left to found the [[Reform Party (South Africa)|Reform Party]] in 1975, which merged with the Progressives to form the [[Progressive Reform Party (South Africa)|Progressive Reform Party]] later the same year.<ref name=":1" /> In 1977, another group of United Party members left the by then rapidly declining party to form the Committee for a United Opposition, which then joined the Progressive Reform Party to form the Progressive Federal Party.<ref name=":1">[http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:11195/louw2.pdf Packing for Perth: The Growth of a Southern African Diaspora], Eric Louw, Gary Mersham, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2001 303]</ref>
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