Libertarians (Trenado)

Libertarians Libertarios
President	Xoán Manoel Sousa
Vice President	Marta Bellotti
Administrative Secretary	Artús Bello
Secretary of Institutional and Legal Subjects	Eduardo Brito
Secretary of Finances	Manoel Neyra
Founded	22 April 1914 (1914-04-22)
Legalized	1 May 1914
Preceded by	Liberal Party
Membership (October 2020)	720.492
Ideology	Social liberalism Progressivism Social libertarianism
Political position	Centre to Centre-left
Colours	Yellow   Black
Slogan	"Freedom above all"
Federal Senate	12 / 45
Federal Congress	70 / 270
Governorships	5 / 17
State Assemblies	121 / 680
Mayors	532 / 2,035
City Councillors	2,409 / 10,024
Political parties

The Libertarians (Galego: Libertarios) are a political party in Trenado, founded on 22 April 1914. The party describes itself as liberal and social libertarian, with economic tendencies sporadically leaning towards laissez-faire, though also defending protectionist economic plans depending on the administration.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Election	Candidate	Running mate	Coalition	First round		Second round		Result
				Votes	%	Votes	%
1916	Victor Novoa (L)	Lino Montero (L)	N/A	4,536,361	46.7% (#1)	5,276,785	53.0% (#1)	Elected Y
1920	Filipe Salles (L)	Duarte Ocampos (L)	N/A	5,109,427	51.2% (#1)	–	–	Elected Y
1924			N/A	5,166,637	49.8% (#1)	5,544,279	53.4% (#1)	Elected Y
1928	Abel Pelozo (L)	Xerman Delvalle (L)	N/A	4,618,742	42.9% (#2)	4,930,964	45.8% (#2)	Lost N
1948	Marcelo Vasquez (L)	Xoán Mario Rodriguez (L)	Libertarians, Progressives	5,585,801	43.9% (#2)	5,853,004	46.0% (#2)	Lost N
1952			Libertarians, Socialists	5,324,871	40.6% (#2)	5,219,947	39.8% (#2)	Lost N
1956	Augusto Ferreyra (L)	Tadeu Verdugo (L)	N/A	5,200,183	38.5% (#2)	5,524,351	40.9% (#2)	Lost N
1960			N/A	6,323,815	45.5% (#1)	7,032,638	50.6% (#1)	Elected Y
1964			N/A	6,387,639	44.7% (#1)	7,002,109	49.0% (#2)	Lost N
1968	Lucas Farina Marchis (L)	Héctor Gansz (L)	N/A	5,021,088	34.2% (#2)	—	—	Lost N
1972	Rosemaria de Castro (L)	Nuno Gregorio Basquez (L)	Libertarians, Liberals	6,029,227	40.0% (#2)	8,049,019	53.4% (#1)	Elected Y
1976				7,917,872	51.2% (#1)	—	—	Elected Y
1980	Carlos Friedemann (L)	Ruben Valle (L)		8,039,052	50.7% (#1)	—	—	Elected Y
1984			Libertarians, Progressives	8,286,298	51.0% (#1)	—	—	Elected Y
1988	Rosemaria de Castro (L)	Lorenzo Sarabia (L)	N/A	8,702,284	52.3% (#1)	—	—	Elected Y
1992	Lorenzo Sarabia (L)	Jaime Cambra (L)	N/A	8,396,131	49.3% (#1)	10,422,783	61.2% (#1)	Elected Y
1996		Elias Meléndrez (L)	N/A	8,780,797	50.4% (#1)	—	—	Elected Y
2000	Leonardo Cuello (P)	Moises Viveiros (P)	Progressives, Libertarians, Liberals	8,871,243	49.8% (#1)	10,403,224	58.4% (#1)	Elected Y
2004	Elias Meléndrez (L)	Xoán Manoel Sousa (L)	Libertarians, Liberals	8,119,548	44.6% (#1)	9,733,274	52.2% (#2)	Lost N
2008	Xoán Manoel Sousa (L)	Luis Valentin da Villa (L)	N/A	7,364,329	39.6% (#2)	7,475,909	40.2% (#2)	Lost N
2012	Marta Bellotti (L)		N/A	7,785,209	41.0% (#2)	9,759,994	51.4% (#1)	Elected Y
2016			N/A	8,449,610	43.6% (#1)	9,612,400	49.6% (#2)	Lost N
2020	Maxin Valeiro (L)	Marta Bellotti (L)	Libertarians, Worker's Party	8,991,189	45.4% (#1)	9,273,532	48.0% (#2)	Lost N
2024		Regina Vina (PT)	Libertarians, Worker's Party	9,076,672	45.4% (#1)	TBD	TBD	—