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The Libertarian Party (LIBER; pt-BR, Partido Libertários) is a libertarian Brazilian
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listed as a
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by the
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(
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: ''Tribunal Superior Eleitoral;'' TSE). The party was founded on June 20, 2009, in Belo Horizonte. The concept of the Brazilian Libertarian Party first surfaced in 2005 among users of the
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social networking service.Partido nascido no Orkut prega o ultraliberalism
/ref> LIBER's program and statutes were published in the Federal Official Gazette in January 2010. The party has organized demonstrations on the
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waterfront against the PNDH 3 bill, and have also participated in
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forums and seminars, such as the Austrian Economy Seminar and the ''Liberdade e Democracia'' Forum in Belo Horizonte. The Libertarians are affiliated with the Inter-libertarians, an international association of Libertarian parties and organizations. Because of its strong defense of a market economy with minimal state interference, the party has been associated with the
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. Although their stances on economic issues tend to lean right, on social issues libertarianism tends to be
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. Traditionally, libertarian theory is related to the
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tradition, whose proponents include John Locke,
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, Adam Smith and
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.


Ideology

The party promotes economic libertarianism, drawing inspiration from the Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, the American economist
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, and the American philosopher Robert Nozick. It supports free-market policies and is ideologically informed by Austrian-British
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and philosopher
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and Austrian-American economist and historian
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. The party identifies with the
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. In an interview with Instituto Pais Melhor, the former president of LIBER Bernardo Santoro defined libertarianism as "a political philosophy based on individual sovereignty, non-initiation of aggression, and self-ownership." In this definition, a man is the owner of his body and mixes his work with nature, which creates a legal system with private property ownership and an economic system with a
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and free interaction between individuals."


Registration process

The party is not registered with the
Superior Electoral Court The Superior Electoral Court ( pt-BR, Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, TSE) is the highest body of the Brazilian Electoral Justice, which also comprises one Regional Electoral Court ( pt-BR, Tribunal Regional Eleitoral, TRE) in each of the 26 states ...
, as they do not have the required 500,000 supporters.


Directories

Note: The following table is sorted alphabetically by state names.


See also

* Anarcho-capitalism * Freedom of speech *
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*
Minarchism A night-watchman state, or minarchy, whose proponents are known as minarchists, is a model of a state that is limited and minimal, whose functions depend on libertarian theory. Right-libertarians support it only as an enforcer of the non-aggr ...


References


External links


Brazilian Libertarian Party Website
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