Marc Forne Molne

Marc Forné i Molné (b. Andorra la Vella, December 30, 1946) is an Andorran former politician and lawyer. He was head of government of Andorra from 1994 to 2005. He was President of the Liberal Party of Andorra until November 2005.

The policy exercised by Marc Forné was inspired by liberalism and he wanted to keep the level of taxes low and avoid any statist drift.

During his tenure he was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic, and in 2010 he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic by the Kingdom of Spain.

Quotes

• "We want to take into account the latest debates on the so-called 'state of social well-being', contained in the documents of the United Nations and the European Union, and thus avoid both sterile mimeticisms and the most common dysfunctions of that model: very high social spending, state leadership and excessive administrative bureaucratization, lack of efficiency in the distribution of resources, excessive protectionism, which creates civic dependency and demobilization of social initiatives."Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen 1995)

• "A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical perspective. The discoveries made over the last one hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve the well-being of a country - this is why Andorra's strategy is based on a liberal way of thinking." (International Liberal Congress, Oxford, United Kingdom, 27-30 November 1997)