The Independent Liberal Party or Doctrinary ( es, Partido Independiente Liberal) was an independent

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which was formed during

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's presidency by a group of parliament members, known as the doctrinaries, who opposed him. The party began with a manifesto published on 22 October 1885. They were members of some presidential cabinets from 1891 onwards. Its founders were Miguel Luis Amunategui, Gregorio Víctor Amunategui, Vicente Reyes,

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, Ismael Valdés and

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. Its party platform wanted an increase of public liberties, to apply

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and to establish a real democratic regime. The ILP could be seen as a tendency in the

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, it usually shared its candidate lists, but its members used to vote in a different way than the official one. Sometimes, it didn't even share a candidacy with the Liberal Party. Contrarily to the PL, whose members could be from both Liberal Alliance and the

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, doctrinary liberals were always members or supporters of the Alliance. In 1930 it merged into the United Liberal Party. With the downfall of president

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(1931) it rearranged as an autonomous organization. During the VI Convention of the Liberal Party, in October 1933 the ILP merged into the LP.

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''The original version of this article draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of 7 June 2007.''

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