The Liberal Democratic Party (, PLD) was a minor liberal– centrist

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. It never had representatives in the Assembly of the Republic, the Portuguese legislature. It was founded in September 2007, in

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by college professor Eduardo Correia as the ''Merit and Society Movement'' (, ; abbreviated ''MMS''). On April 29, 2008 8,400 signatures were presented to the Portuguese Constitutional Court to start the legal procedures for the formation of the party. It was recognized the same month. Since 2011, it has been called the Liberal Democratic Party. It was declared extinct by the Portuguese Constitutional Court in November 2019.

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