{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox political party | country = Italy | name = Liberal Democratic Pole | native_name = Polo Liberal Democratico | logo = Logo_of_the_Liberal_Democratic_Pole.svg | logo_size = 150px | leader = Adriano Teso | leader1_title = | leader1_name = | leader2_title = | leader2_name = | leader3_title = | leader3_name = | leader4_title = | leader4_name = | foundation = 3 February 1994 | dissolution = 1994 | merged = Forza Italia | split = Segni Pact | headquarters = | membership_year = | membership = | ideology = Liberalism | position = Centre-right | national = Pole of Good Government <small>(1994)</small> | international = | european = | europarl = | website = | colorcode = #3366FF }} The '''Liberal Democratic Pole''' ({{langx|it|Polo Liberal Democratico}}, PLD) was a liberal political party in Italy active during 1994.

The PLD was founded by Adriano Teso and Carlo Usiglio, who had left the Segni Pact with the aim of creating a centre-right alliance. The party was a member of the Pole of Freedoms alliance.<ref name="Golder2006">{{cite book|author=Sona Nadenichek Golder|title=The Logic of Pre-electoral Coalition Formation|year=2006|publisher=Ohio State University Press|isbn=978-0-8142-1029-1|page=160}}</ref>

In the 1994 general election Teso and Usiglio were elected in the Chamber of Deputies with the Pole of Freedoms. Instead the PLD presented itself in the colleges where was present the Pole of Good Government.<ref name="Iaricci2014">{{cite book|author=Gian Piero Iaricci|title=Istituzioni di diritto pubblico|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xk1ZBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA163|year=2014|publisher=Maggioli Editore|isbn=978-88-916-0681-5|page=163}}</ref>

After the 1994 general election Teso was nominated Undersecretary for Labour and Social Security in the Berlusconi I Cabinet, and the party merged into Forza Italia.<ref name="Magone2003">{{cite book|author=José María Magone|title=The Politics of Southern Europe: Integration into the European Union|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KOj2BwVxczUC&pg=PA168|year=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-97787-0|page=168}}</ref>

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