The Libertarian Party (LIBER; pt-BR, Partido Libertários) is a

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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 Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...

. 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

. 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

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tends to be

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. Traditionally, libertarian theory is related to the

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tradition, whose proponents include

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and

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and ...

Ideology

The party promotes economic

, drawing inspiration from the Russian-American writer and philosopher

Ayn Rand Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, . Most sources transliterate her given name as either ''Alisa'' or ''Alissa''. , 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian-born American writer and p ...

, the American economist

Murray Rothbard Murray Newton Rothbard (; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School, economic historian, political theorist, and activist. Rothbard was a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian m ...

, and the American philosopher

Robert Nozick Robert Nozick (; November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University,

. It supports free-market policies and is ideologically informed by Austrian-British

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and philosopher

Friedrich Hayek Friedrich August von Hayek ( , ; 8 May 189923 March 1992), often referred to by his initials F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian–British economist, legal theorist and philosopher who is best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Haye ...

and Austrian-American economist and historian

Ludwig von Mises Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (; 29 September 1881 – 10 October 1973) was an Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and Sociology, sociologist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on the societal contributions of classical liberali ...

. 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

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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

, as they do not have the required 500,000 supporters.

Directories

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

References

External links

Brazilian Libertarian Party Website
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Ideology

Registration process

Directories

See also

References

External links