Alex Salmond's Alba Party sees membership pass 4,000 as founder hails 'Scotland's new political force'
dailyrecord.co.ukDemocrats. The assertion is based on a listing of the party's membership on its Wikipedia page, which shows numbers at 4,085 as of December 2018.
He said: "Little did I think when I founded the party the impact that it would have. "After exactly one week since our public launch, our membership has surged past that of the Liberal Democrats, a party which has been in existence for 1 50 years." The Liberal Democrats were formed in the 1980s following a partnership between the Liberal and Social Democratic parties.He added that Alba was "Scotland's new political force".However, a Survation poll released on Thursday put the party at just 3% support with the more than 1,000 respondents.The survey done for newspaper publisher DC Thomson also found.
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