Decision to welcome Republican, nationalist and Liberal separately shown in account (9)
I believe the answer is:
chronicle
'account' is the definition.
(I know that account can be written as chronicle)
'decision to welcome republican nationalist and liberal separately' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'republican' could be 'r' (abbreviation in US politics) and 'r' is present in the answer.
'nationalist' could be 'n' (abbreviation in politics) and 'n' is present in the answer.
'liberal' could be 'l' (abbreviation) and 'l' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'choice' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'shown in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chronicle that I've seen before include "(Make a) historical record" , "Story" , "Narrative description of past events" , "Historical account" , "Record of historic events" .)