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History

As both

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and the

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— a joint list led primarily by

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— failed to meet the electoral threshold at the

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, thus not electing any MEPs,

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(

) and Enrico Costa (

) published a letter on

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advocating for the creation of a unitary party to represent liberal voters in Italy. They emphasized that the party's leadership should be fairly contestable and that the party's political stance should remain independent from both the

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. Following his party's defeat in the European election,

's leader,

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, announced that the "

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" instead be led by a third person. However, he later joined the centre-left coalition. Marattin condemned Renzi's statement, arguing that such a decision should be made by the party congress. In September, Marattin left Italia Viva and founded a political association called ''Liberal Horizons'', with the goal of creating a roadmap for the establishment of a unitary liberal party, together with ''NOS'', led by Alessandro Tommasi, and the European Liberal Democrats, led by

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. A few days later, Costa left Action, after Carlo Calenda formed an alliance with the centre-left and the

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for the 2024 Ligurian regional election, and rejoined his former party,

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. On 22 and 23 November, a convention in

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called "The Courage to Go", marked the birth of the so-called "Libdem Constituent (Assembly)", composed by LDE, Liberal Horizons, NOS, the Liberal Forum, and the Reformist Ecologist Pact (PER). On 8 March 2025, the party was officially launched at a convention in Rome, where the party's name and logo were unveiled, and it was announced that the founding congress would be held in June. On 28 June, Luigi Marattin was elected by acclamation as the new secretary of the party, while Andrea Marcucci was appointed president.https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/06/28/cosiddetto-terzo-polo-ci-riprova-marattin-eletto-segretario-del-partito-liberaldemocratico-slogan-nuovi-fiammanti-basta-destra-e-sinistra/8042945/

Founding members

Leadership

*Secretary:

(2025–present) *President:

(2025–present)

References

External links

* {{Italian political parties 2025 establishments in Italy Political parties established in 2025 Liberal parties in Italy Libertarian parties Libertarianism in Italy Pro-European political parties in Italy