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Broad Liberation Front Frente Ampla Libertação (Luzelese) Bred Befrielsefront (Blostlandic)
Abbreviation	FAL, BBF
Chairperson	Sérgio Lindahl
Deputy Chairperson	Mauricio Alcantara
Founder	Geraldo Saldanha
Founded	1999
Student wing	Broad Liberation Front Student Force
Youth wing	Estevista Youth Revolutionaries
Women's wing	Ladies of the Estevista Revolution
Membership	976,436
Ideology	Estevismo Left-wing nationalism Left-wing populism Sotirian socialism
Political position	Left-wing
Colors	Red, Black
Vanharian Legislative Assembly	67 / 84
Department Governorships	12 / 15
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The Broad Liberation Front (Luzelese: Frente Ampla Libertação; Blostlandic: Bred Befrielsefront), or the FAL or BBF, is a Vanharian left-wing political party that has ruled the country since 2000. It was founded in 1999 soon after the 1999 Vanhar peace deal that ended the Esquedor conflict and opened the left into Vanharian politics. One of many left-wing parties, many of which following the ideology of Estevismo, it became the most successful and longest ruling parties in the Asterias. It is currently lead by Sérgio Lindahl and controls the Vanharian Legislative Assembly with a supermajority and a majority of the Departmental governorships in Vanhar.

After Vanhar's independence from the Asterian Federative Republic the left-wing rebels in Vanhar continued to fight the government of Bernardo Erhardsson. In 1999 the peace deal and disarmament of left-wing forces lead to the introduction of many leftist parties into politics. One of these was the Broad Liberation Front lead by lawyer Geraldo Saldanha, which would be able to unite many other left-wing parties and run on a platform of social and economic reforms, which appealed to the former-AFR state, which had been economically poor since the collapse. It would win in 2000 with over 55% of the vote.

The government of Geraldo Saldanha would be extremely successful, in 2004 the FAL would win a supermajority. In 2008 Saldanha was succeeded by Sérgio Lindahl, his deputy. He would further push more authoritarian measures to keep the FAL in power and become more adversarial with the AFR under Pereira, his wife, Eva Lindahl would become his deputy in 2017, and Foreign Minister Mauricio Alcantara would become the party's deputy chairman.

History

Foundation

Left-wing separatists in southeast Vanhar, 1988

After the military takeover of the Asterian Federative Republic in the 1960s, Governor Vicente Rebelo Mata was ousted by the military in 1966. The government became much more Right-wing out of fear of leftist elements after the war with Chistovodia. Separatism in Vanhar became predominantly left-wing, although some other separatists were right-wing and center. These groups became known as Separadors, they were heavily supplied by Chistovodia and North Vinalia. In the 1980s these groups became much larger and started to make pushes in Vanhar. In 1988 Bernardo Erhardsson became Governor of Vanhar and eventually he and the legislature voted for independence in 1989 as the AFR collapsed. Many of the right-wing elements of the separatists dissolved, but the left-wing ones remained, and became oppositional to the centre-right government of Erhardsson.

Saldanha leadership

Saldanha (right), would unite the Vanharian left in 2000

Lindahl leadership

Lindahl would solidify FAL rule in Vanhar

Alcantara would become Deputy Leader after Eva Lindahl was made Deputy President

Ideology

Estevismo

Edmundo Esteves, the ideological founder of Estevismo

Sotirian socialism

Bishop Tiago Cancelo, a critic of the AFR's government, he is celebrated by Sotirian socialists