movement (not a political party). The current president is Miguel Duarte. Liberal Initiative 2017: The Liberal Initiative, a classical liberal party, is founded and becomes a full member of the ALDE European Party. In 2019, its debut year at the Portuguese legislative elections, the party won one seat in the Portuguese Parliament. The party supported its first government coalition, at regional level, after the 2020 Azorean regional election. IL is, similarly to most alike European liberal parties, closest to the right-wing libertarianism and centre-right British notion of classical liberalism, following a reverse notion of that same base-ideology of left-wing liberalism in North America. The party won 30 seats in municipal councils in its first ever local elections. In the 2022 legislative election, the party added seven new seats in the Portuguese Parliament for a total of eight MPs. Political parties See also Liberal Revolution of 1820 Liberal Wars History of Portugal Politics of Portugal List of political parties in Portugal References Portugal Political history of Portugal Politics of Portugal