Liberal Party (Chile, 2007–)

Liberal Party of Chile Partido Liberal de Chile
President	Vlado Mirosevic
Founded	26 January 2013
Headquarters	Santiago de Chile
Ideology	Social liberalism
Political position	Centre to Centre-left
National affiliation	If You Want It, Chile Changes (2013-present)
International affiliation	Liberal International
Colours	Blue and red
Chamber of Deputies	1 / 120
Senate	0 / 38
Website
www.losliberales.cl
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Liberal Party of Chile is a political party founded 26 January 2013 in Santiago Chile. The president and main figure of the party is the deputy Vlado Mirosevic.

Liberal Party of Chile (Spanish: ) is a social-liberal party in Chile. The party identifies itself with the egalitarian liberalism, progressive liberalism and social liberalism (with particular reference to the social liberalism in Europe).

In Chile the word liberal is after the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet often synonymous with technocracy and neoliberalism since Pinochet based his reforms on the neoliberalism presented by Milton Friedman and the Chicago boys. The Liberal Party of Chile is based on social liberalism and does thus oppose the neoliberalism which still influences many institutions in Chile. Retaking the tradition of the first liberals of the 20th century the Liberal Party of Chile intends to combine the economic policy with a strong social policy. In Latin America the majority of the liberal parties are founded on neoliberalism and therefore Liberal Party of Chile is one of the only social liberal parties in Latin America.

Liberal Party of Chile defend the freedom of the individual in values such as same-sex marriage, the legalisation of marijuana, the legalisation of abortion and the legalisation of euthanasia. Further they support decentralization which also opposes the heritage of Pinochet who implemented centralism in the country. Finally the party supports the change of the Chilean constitution implemented by Pinochet in 1980.

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