Liberal Initiative

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The Liberal Initiative (Portuguese: Iniciativa Liberal [inisjɐˈtivɐ liβɨˈɾal], IL) is a liberal and libertarian political party in Portugal. Founded in 2017, it is currently led by Mariana Leitão, who was elected in July 2025. The party has been described as being on the political right by academics and journalists. It has 9 elected seats out of a total of 230 in the Portuguese Parliament. The party was founded in December 2017, and in October 2019, its debut year at the Portuguese legislative elections, it won one seat in the Portuguese Parliament. It had run in its first elections in May 2019 for the European Parliament and in 2020 supported its first government coalition, at regional level, after the 2020 Azorean regional election. The party espouses a liberal economic platform, supporting a simplification and reduction of the tax burden, liberalisation of the labour market, an equitable and universal welfare state, as well as cultural and secular liberalism.

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