The Freedom Party (''Partido Libertad'', PL) was a progressive and humanist party in
Ecuador
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, mostly based in small and medium enterprise politics. It was founded around 2001 and dissolved in 2003.
In the
legislative
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elections
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, held on 20 October 2002, the party won 1 out of 100 seats. Its candidate,
César Alarcón, won 1.2% of the vote in the presidential election held on the same day. After the dissolution of the party in 2003 its only parliamentary representative, Hugo Ibarra, became an
independent
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In 2007, the party was reregistered to participate in the elections of the 2007
Constitutional assembly
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. The party would go on to win 0.47% of the national popular vote and no seats.
External links
Homepage of César Alarcón Costta and Freedom Party
Defunct political parties in Ecuador
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