 It expelled its longtime leader H-C Strache, who is expected to attempt a comeback as the top candidate of a newly formed party in the upcoming 2020 Vienna city elections.The Liberal Forum ("Liberales Forum", or LIF), founded on libertarian ideals, split from the FPÖ in February 1993.It received 3.65% of the vote in the 1999 election and thus failed to pass the 4% threshold necessary for representation in the lower house of parliament ("Nationalrat").