Liberal Party of Wizlandia
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| Abbreviation | LP |
| Leader | Ashley Lavelle (Chief Executive) |
| Deputy Leader | Samuel Mitchell (Secretary of the Senate) |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Newspaper | The Lorenvia Times |
| Think tank | Liberal Policy Institute |
| Youth wing | Young Liberals |
| Ideology | Liberalism Economic Liberalism Civil Libertarianism |
| Political position | Centre to Centre-Right |
| European affiliation | ALDE (Observing Member) |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
| Colors | Navy Blue |
| Slogan | "Ensuring liberty, opportunity, and prosperity." |
| House of Commons | 264 / 800
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| Senate | 44 / 120
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| State Legislatures | 1,632 / 4,682
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The Liberal Party, abbreviated LP, is one of the three major contemporary political parties of Wizlandia, along with its main political rivals the Social Democratic Party and the National Party. It is currently in a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party.
The Liberal Party ideology is Liberalism, which incorporates economic liberal, cultural liberal, and civil libertarian positions. On economic issues the Liberal Party favours low broad-base taxation, a free market economy with minimal economic regulations, trade liberalisation, carbon pricing, and maintaining the current Universal Catastrophic Coverage healthcare system. On social issues, the Liberal Party is strongly civil libertarian, supporting open immigration, drug legalisation, legalisation of prostitution, gay marriage, polygamy, internet freedom, freedom of speech, and freedom of association. The majority of Liberals favour a Liberal Interventionist foreign policy of pressuring illiberal nations to adopt liberal and democratic reforms, and also favour continued membership in the World Assembly, although there is a significant faction of non-interventionists in the party.
Political Positions
Constitution
The Constitution of Wizlandia was enacted in 2013 by a Liberal-National coalition government, and the current Liberal Party are in favour of maintaining the current structure of government and civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. In particular, Liberals staunchly oppose amendments that would lower the threshold of passing a bill from a three-fifths supermajority of both houses to a simple majority, and they oppose amendments that would weaken the Constitutional provisions restraining federal power.
Economics
The Liberal Party support free-market economics, including free trade, investment freedom, and oppose legislation that would increase zoning regulations, occupational licensing regulations, labour regulations, and institute a minimum wage, which they describe policies as rent-seeking behaviour, and instead advocate maintaining Wizlandia's flexible labour market. The Liberal Party also tend to support a small to medium sized welfare state in the form of a Negative Income Tax, funded by consumption, income, land-value and carbon taxes, which they believe is a more efficient way to help the poor than interfering with markets. Liberals oppose instituting a corporate or wealth tax, and they tend to opposed high-levels of government borrowing, believing that it crowds out more productive private investment, but they support counter-cyclical deficit spending during economic recessions. The Liberal Party support the independence of the Federal Bank, and oppose any attempts to link the Wizcoin to a fix quantity of gold or to other currencies.
Environment
The Liberal Party support the current Carbon Tax, believing that forcing consumers to internalise pollution externalities to be the most cost-effective method of fighting global warming. In addition, Liberals support nuclear and hydroelectric power, and tend to downplay environmental concerns regarding the construction of dams.