Libertarian Party (Liberto-Ancapistan)

Libertarian Party Partiya Libertarî
Leader	Rouya Arjmand
Chairman	Lazar Mokri
Deputy Leader	Rasmus Thornes
Founded	5th August 1838
Split from	Liberal Party
Headquarters	9 Kaivan Street, Bakur Quarter, Liberty City
Youth wing	Young Libertarians
Santian wing	Libertarians of Santia
Overseas wing	Libertarians Abroad
Ideology	Classical liberalism Federalism Factions Delonism Libertarianism
Political position	Centre-right
Colors	Orange
House of Commons	141 / 500
Senate	43 / 110
Provincial Premiers	2 / 7

The Libertarian Party (Basaquese: Partiya Libertarî) is a centre-right political party in Liberto-Ancapistan. It is one of the two major parties of contemporary Liberto-Ancapistan along with Progress. The Libertarian Party is the oldest continuous political party in Liberto-Ancapistan, and governed the country between its formation in 1955 and 2000. There have been four Libertarian Chancellors.

The party was founded in 1838, having split from the Santian Liberal Party in order to pursue a Basaquastanian nationalist revolution in secret. This occurred in the form of the 1840 Summer Revolution, during which the party formed a provisional government and successfully established independence in Libertaria, among failures to expand the revolution further. The party would go on to govern Libertaria for all but 14 years of its existence, until the unification of Liberto-Ancapistan in 1955. During the following General Election, the Libertarian Party successfully established itself across the country under the leadership of former Libertarian Chancellor Alexandre Delon, who became the first Chancellor of Liberto-Ancapistan.

The party continued to be the main governing party of Liberto-Ancapistan until the 2000 General Election, when years of declining popularity and major scandals caused a near-electoral wipeout, with the Libertarians becoming the third-largest party for the first time. After significant reforms, the party reestablished popularity, and following the 2020 General Election has formed a two-party system with Progress.

The Libertarian Party has always adopted liberal economic policies favouring free market economics, though the extent to which market reforms have been pursued and their prominence within the Libertarian programme have varied over its existence. Additionally, since the formation of Liberto-Ancapistan in 1955 the party has favoured the retention of a federal government system. Following the 1978 ascension of Sherin Mezaros to party leader, the party re-adopted its opposition to paternalistic social policies, and has since supported liberal social policies including abortion rights, non-citizen sufferage and gender self-identification. The party has taken various policy approaches to the United Federation of Telrova (UFT), with both pro-UFT and UFT-sceptic factions. Broadly, the party leadership has supported UFT economic integration, but has opposed UFT political integration.

Name

The name of the Libertarian Party (Partiya Libertarî) is a topic subject to significant misconceptions, because of its association with a wider political ideology of the same name, with which it shares many (but not all) aspects of belief. The Party's name comes from the Province and historical region of Libertaria, and was originally adopted as a pejorative term for radical liberals supportive of Basaquastanian nationalism within the Santian Empire's Liberal Party, because most major figures originated in that region. The pejorative was adopted by the early liberal radicals themselves after they broke from the Liberal Party and began planning a nationalist revolution in the Libertaria Region; it has remained the same since.

The etymology of Libertarian, in regards to the political ideology, has been disputed, with some ascribing it to emulators of the Libertarian Party and Republic of Libertaria. In any case, the word 'libertarian' has never been used in Liberto-Ancapistan for ideological concepts not connected to the Libertarian Party, and so aspects of its platform not found in overseas 'libertarian' movements (such as public education and fiat currency) are referred to as 'libertarian'. The beliefs of the party, and similar groups, are popularly referred to as 'right-liberal', or simply 'liberal', while followers of the ideology referred to elsewhere as 'libertarianism' are usually identified as 'minarchists'.

History

The Libertarian Party originated as a grouping within the Santian Empire's Liberal Party during the early 1830s. This group was unified by several characteristics, including Basaquese nationalism, support for full adult sufferage, and radicalism. Most major figures of this group originated in southern Basaquastan, particularly Libertaria, giving the party its future name. Following the failed 1833 Green Revolution in Santia, which saw the Liberal Party's political hopes significantly curtailed by a mixture of compromise and suppression, the 'libertarian movement' became increasingly independent from its parent party, and increasingly revolutionary in its opposition to the Santian Empire.

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