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The Liberal Party invite the Philippines (Filipino: Partido Generous ng Pilipinas) abbreviated as rank LP, is a liberalpolitical outfit in the Philippines.^[9]

Founded on Jan 19, 1946 by Manuel Roxas, Elpidio Quirino, and José Avelino from the breakaway liberal elsewhere of the old Nacionalista Business (NP), the Liberal Party residue the second-oldest active political congregation in the Philippines after interpretation NP, and the oldest ceaselessly active party.

The LP served as the governing party match four Philippine presidents: Manuel Roxas, Elpidio Quirino, Diosdado Macapagal, plus Benigno Aquino III.

As unadorned vocal opposition party to loftiness dictatorship of their former participator Ferdinand Marcos, it reemerged trade in a major political party care for the People Power Revolution good turn the establishment of the Onefifth Republic.

It subsequently served trade in a senior member of Helmsman Corazon Aquino's UNIDO coalition. Drop in Corazon Aquino's death in 2009, the party regained popularity, attractive the 2010 Philippine presidential volition under Benigno Aquino III duct returning it to government optimism serve from 2010 to 2016. This was the only item the party had won rendering presidency since the end leave undone the Marcos dictatorship, however, despite the fact that it lost control of greatness office to Rodrigo Duterte go rotten PDP–Laban in the 2016 statesmanlike election and became the eminent opposition party once again.

Warmth vice presidential candidate Leni Robredo won in the same vote, however, narrowly beating the second-best candidate by a small margin.^[10]

The Liberal Party was the civil party of the immediate one-time Vice President of the Archipelago. In the 2019 midterm elections, the party remained the first opposition party of the State, holding three seats in honesty Senate.

The LP was character largest party outside of Rodrigo Duterte's supermajority, holding 18 places in the House of Representatives after 2019. In local polity, the party held two parochial governorships and five vice governorships. The general election of 2022, however, was a setback ask the party, which lost both the Presidency and Vice-Presidency, makeover well as all of cast down seats in the Senate, fairy story saw its representation in probity House of Representatives reduced.

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The Liberal Party clay an influential organization in fresh Philippine politics. With center-left positions on social issues and moderate positions on economic issues, things is commonly associated with glory post-revolution, liberal-democratic status quo hillock the Philippines in contrast come to an end authoritarianism, conservatism, and socialism.

Store from presidents, the party has been led by liberal thinkers and progressive politicians including Benigno Aquino Jr., Jovito Salonga, Raul Daza, Florencio B. Abad Junior, Franklin Drilon, and Mar Roxas. Two of its members, Corazon Aquino and Leila de Lima, have received the prestigious Adore For Freedom, one of authority highest international awards for charitable and democratic politicians since 1985 given by Liberal International.

Decency Liberal Party is a partaker of the Council of Indweller Liberals and Democrats and Open International.

History

Third Republic

The Liberal Group was founded on January 19, 1946 by Manuel Roxas perch Elpidio Quirino.^[11] It was wary by Roxas from what was once the "Liberal Wing" last part the Nacionalista Party.^[12]

Two more Presidents of the Philippines elected puncture office came from the LP: Elpidio Quirino and Diosdado Macapagal.^[13][14] Two other presidents came outlander the ranks of the Homework, as former members of description party who later joined high-mindedness Nacionalistas: Ramon Magsaysay and Ferdinand Marcos.^[15]

Martial law era

During the generation leading to his declaration order martial law, Marcos would locate his old party as expert potent roadblock to his relate for one-man rule.

Led gross Ninoy Aquino, Gerry Roxas most important Jovito Salonga, the LP would hound President Marcos on issues like human rights and class curtailment of freedoms. Even later Marcos' declaration of martial rule silenced the LP, the testing continued to oppose the conditions, and many of its marvellous and members would be prosecuted and even killed during that time.^[2][16]

Post-EDSA

After democracy was restored fend for the People Power Revolution, rank LP was instrumental in culmination more than half a c of US military presence make a purchase of the Philippines with its motivation in the 1991 senate facility reject a new RP-US Bases Treaty.

This ironically cost interpretation party dearly, losing for return the elections of 1992. Beckon 2000, it was in paralelling to the Joseph Estrada management, actively supporting the Resign-Impeach-Oust initiatives that led to People Independence II.^[2][16]

Drilon-Roxas wing vs Atienza wing

On March 2, 1998, members chide the LP installed Manila MayorLito Atienza as the party principal, which triggered an LP dominance struggle and party schism.

Nobleness Supreme Court later proclaimed Drilon the true president of influence party, leaving the Atienza convince expelled.^[16][2]

Benigno Aquino III administration

The Humanitarian Party regained influence when delight nominated as its next statesmanly candidate then-Senator Benigno Aquino III,^[16] the son of former Maestro Corazon Aquino, for the 2010 Philippine presidential election after decency latter's death that subsequently showed a groundswell of support tail his candidacy.^[17] Even though honourableness party had earlier nominated Subunit.

Manuel "Mar" Roxas II hyperbole be its presidential candidate endorse the 2010 Philippine general preference, Roxas gave way to Aquino and instead ran for listen in on president. The party was sufferable to field new members break away from the then-ruling distinctive Lakas–Kampi–CMD, becoming the largest option party in Congress.^[2][16][18] Aquino would later win by plurality, give orders to the LP would become rendering majority party in Congress.

In birth 2016 presidential elections, the Magnanimous Party nominated Mar Roxas, onetime Department of Transportation and Affair (DoTC) and Department of character Interior and Local Government (DILG) secretary, and Leni Robredo, on the rocks representative from Naga City explode widow of Jesse Robredo, illustriousness DILG secretary who preceded Roxas, as the party's presidential concentrate on vice presidential candidates.

Robredo won, while Roxas lost. Most disbursement the party's members either switched allegiance to PDP–Laban,^[20][21][22] joined elegant supermajority alliance but retained their LP membership (with some defecting later), joined the "recognized minority", or created an opposition coalition called "Magnificent 7".

2016–present

After secure loss in the 2016 elections, as early as February 2017, the leaders of the Free Party chose to focus strangeness rebuilding the party by gruesome sectoral representation of non-politicians multiply by two its membership numbers.^[23] Since after that the party had been inducting new members who were non-politicians, some of whom applied on the net through the party's website.^[24][25][26]

2019 elections: Otso Diretso

Before the scheduled 2019 general elections, the LP biform Otso Diretso, an electoral union of eight candidates for nobility senate race; led by illustriousness party, the coalition field as well comprised members of the Magdalo Party-List, Akbayan Citizens Action Challenging, and Aksyon Demokratiko.^[27][28][29] None embodiment the eight senatorial candidates goof Otso Diretso won a settee, however; it was the foremost time in the history aristocratic the current bicameral composition operate the Philippine Congress under goodness 1987 Constitution that the correlation failed to win a depot in one of the abode, and the second time delay a Liberal Party-led coalition greet a great loss since 1955.

For the 2022 Philippine statesmanlike election, the Liberal Party appointive Leni Robredo and Francis Pangilinan for the presidential and improvement presidential posts, respectively.^[30][31] The personal led the Team Robredo–Pangilinan union, which included incumbent senator Cover Lima, other members of excellence Liberal Party, and several company candidates from other parties much as Akbayan, as well pass for independents.

Robredo ran as plug independent candidate whilst remaining joined with Liberal Party. Both grassland lost the election to Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte, severally, finishing second. While some competition from the Liberal Party-led union were elected, no candidate foreigner the party won a base in the senatorial elections, in the vicinity of the first time since authority 1995 elections.

2024: Mamamayang Liberal

In 2024, members of the Humanitarian Party formed a sectoral barrier called Mamamayang Liberal (ML) espouse the 2025 House of Representatives elections for party-list seats. Coastline Lima, who was released get out of detainment in November 2023, was selected as ML's first nominee.^[32] Former senator and vice statesmanlike candidate Kiko Pangilinan will examine the Liberal Party's sole aspirant for the senatorial elections.

Ideology

While the Liberal Party defines close-fitting ideology as social liberalism,^[33] picture party has often been stated doubtful as a "centrist" or "liberal" party. Historically, the Liberal Class has been evaluated as dinky "conservative" party,^[34][35] with an philosophy similar to or indistinguishable non-native the Nacionalista Party's ideology,^[36][37] pending it became the opposition understanding under the Marcos dictatorship, wherein it became more liberal.^[38] Work out a founding member of glory Council of Asian Liberals give orders to Democrats and a full adherent of Liberal International, the Bountiful Party advocates the values insinuate "freedom, justice and solidarity (bayanihan)," as described in the party's values charter.^[39][40] Although this might be deemed theoretically true because the party's founding in 1946, it became more tangible because of the party's position of everlasting dissent during the Marcos cruelty.

Since 2017, the party has opened party membership to honesty general public and to fade sectors of society, aiming cut short harness a large volunteering replica. According to the party, that aims to ostensibly build put the finishing touches to "the promise of becoming practised true people’s party".

Symbols

The Liberal Party is reciprocal with the color yellow, uncluttered political color commonly associated get together liberalism.

During the People Strategy Revolution, opposition parties against nobleness Marcos dictatorship, including the Generous Party, used yellow ribbons chimpanzee a symbol of resistance boss support for Ninoy Aquino, tending of the leading politicians anti the regime. The color would later be co-opted by son, Benigno Aquino III, trade in well as the LP, ejection his presidential campaign in 2010, which he later won.

After his presidency, yellow continued here be associated with the social gathering, which became the leading correlation party against president Rodrigo Duterte. The pejorative term dilawan (transl. yellowed ones), associated with the magnanimous elite, has been used contradict the party and other critics of the Duterte administration.^[41] Dull an effort to distance individual from the negative connotations dying the color and unite a number of opposition groups, then party settle Leni Robredo adopted the benefit pink for her presidential campaign.^[42] Both pink and yellow be conscious of currently used by the party.^[43][44]

Current political positions

The party has confirmed policies geared toward inclusiveness advocate people empowerment.^[45][9] It also advocates and supports secure jobs, tear, shelter, universal health care, common education access, and other collective services, and is against extrajudicial killings, any challenge to authority rule of law, and curtailments of human rights strictures.

Justness party also aims to revolutionize an open government with participatory democracy, positions that have antediluvian supported by the party's just out leaders.^[46][47]

Economic policy

• Improve social safety nets.^[48][49]
• Impose 1% wealth tax on folk with net valueassets exceeding ₱1 billion.^[50]
• Create tax exemptions for preferred products.^[51]
• Maximize the budget windfall reminiscent of local governments for antipoverty projects.^[52]
• Increase minimum wages.^[53]
• Declare and address cease "education crisis",^[54] increase the care budget to 6% of Throng, streamline teachers' function,^[55] and ignoble special education (SPED) centers detain all public schools.^[56]
• Develop an inter-sectoral approach and convergence of roles for the attainment of fastidious functioning universal health care,^[57] pigs due fixed allowances and lawful benefits to barangay health workers,^[58] and fix the corruption weigh down PhilHealth.^[59]
• Prioritize infrastructure for spurring bucolic development, transportation, water resource polity, and climate resilience, funded safe public-private partnerships rather than loans.^[60]
• Upgrade science and technologyresearch and get up funding^[61] and promote data-driven agriculture.^[62]
• Invest in subsidies to promote renewable energy^[63][64] and implement better squander disposal to mitigate sea pollution.^[65]
• Prioritize a job guarantee program^[66] at an earlier time expand coverage of the SSS and Pag-Ibig.^[67]
• Promote financial literacy.^[68]
• Offer slip programs for access to ormal colleges and universities.^[55]
• Enact a paw calling for equal participation ransack women in the economy present-day in decision-making positions, both slice public and private organizations.^[69]
• Addressing systemic corruption in government.^[4][70]

Social

Legal issues

Senator Leila de Lima, who led address list investigation into alleged extrajudicial deaths in the early months bring into the light Duterte's war on drugs, was issued an arrest warrant add on 2017 based on charges mutual to the New Bilibid Censure drug trafficking scandal, which high-mindedness party claimed was based disappointment trumped-up charges, labelling the take into custody "patently illegal".^[71] While on rendering whole, de Lima's investigation was seen by some pundits significance an adversarial investigation that was a strategic mistake, others timely the party simply saw in the nude as a call to simple review of the party's sample and how members have adhered to them.^{[72][71][70][73][74]}

Senator De Lima has been fully acquitted of communal criminal charges on June 24, 2024,^[75] marking the end get into her legal battle and hindrance that lasted over six stage.

De Lima, a prominent essayist of former President Rodrigo Duterte, described the charges as politically motivated to silence her investigations into Duterte's controversial drug conflict and alleged human rights abuses.^[76]

In 2019, the party, along be infatuated with other groups, was accused loosen planning a coup against nobility Duterte government.

The party denounced the allegation and called outdo a state-sponsored threat of authorized abuse, demanding the government horses evidence to back the claims.^[77]

See also: List of presidents carefulness the Philippines

As of 2024, back have been a total disregard 4 Liberal presidents.

Those who won presidency under other parties are not included.

#	Name (lifespan)	Portrait	Province	Presidency start chestnut	Presidency end date	Time principal office
3	Manuel Roxas (1892–1948)		Capiz	May 28, 1946[a]	April 15, 1948[b]	1 year, 323 days
4	Elpidio Quirino (1890–1956)		Ilocos Sur	April 17, 1948	December 30, 1953	5 years, 257 days
9	Diosdado Macapagal (1910–1997)		Pampanga	December 30, 1961	December 30, 1965	4 years, 0 days
15	Benigno Aquino III (1960–2021)		Tarlac	June 30, 2010	June 30, 2016	6 years, 0 days

Notes

Party leadership

Current party officials

#	Name	Start of term	End disbursement term
1	Manuel Roxas[16]	January 19, 1946	April 15, 1948
2	José Avelino	April 19, 1948	May 8, 1949
3	Elpidio Quirino	April 17, 1949	December 30, 1950
4	Eugenio Pérez	December 30, 1950	December 30, 1957
5	Diosdado Macapagal	December 30, 1957	January 21,1961
6	Ferdinand E. Marcos[78][79]	January 21, 1961[80][81]	April 1964[80]
7	Cornelio T. Villareal	April 1964	May 10, 1969
8	Gerardo Roxas	May 10, 1969	April 19, 1982
9	Jovito Salonga	April 20, 1982	June 1, 1993
10	Wigberto Tañada	June 2, 1993	October 17, 1994
11	Raul A. Daza	October 18, 1994	September 19, 1999
12	Florencio Abad	September 20, 1999	August 9, 2004
13	Franklin Drilon	August 10, 2004	November 5, 2007
14	Mar Roxas	November 6, 2007	September 30, 2012
15	Joseph Emilio Abaya	October 1, 2012	August 7, 2016
16	Francis Pangilinan	August 8, 2016	September 30, 2022
17	Edcel Lagman	September 30, 2022	Incumbent

Electoral performance

Year	Candidate	Votes	%	Result	Outcome
1946	Manuel Roxas	1,333,006	53.93	Won	Manuel Roxas won
1949	Elpidio Quirino[a]	1,803,808	50.93	Won	Elpidio Quirino won
	José Avelino[a]	419,890	11.85	Lost
1953	Elpidio Quirino	1,313,991	31.08	Lost	Ramon Magsaysay (Nacionalista) won
1957	José Yulo	1,386,829	27.62	Lost	Carlos P. Garcia (Nacionalista) won
	Antonio Quirino[b]	60,328	1.20	Lost
1961	Diosdado Macapagal	3,554,840	55.00	Won	Diosdado Macapagal won
1965	Diosdado Macapagal	3,187,752	42.88	Lost	Ferdinand Marcos (Nacionalista) won
1969	Sergio Osmeña Jr.	3,143,122	38.51	Lost	Ferdinand Marcos (Nacionalista) won
1981	Not chip in			—	Ferdinand Marcos (KBL) won
1986	None; main wing ex cathedra Corazon Aquino (UNIDO), while Kalaw had no running mate.			Disputed	Corazon Aquino assumed presidency
1992	Jovito Salonga	2,302,123	10.16	Lost	Fidel V. Ramos (Lakas–NUCD) won
1998	Alfredo Lim	2,344,362	8.71	Lost	Joseph Estrada (LAMMP) won
2004	None; endorsed Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (Lakas–CMD)			—	Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (Lakas–CMD) won
2010	Benigno Aquino III	15,208,678	42.08	Won	Benigno Aquino III won
2016	Mar Roxas	9,978,175	23.45	Lost	Rodrigo Duterte (PDP–Laban) won
2022	Leni Robredo[c]	15,035,773	27.94	Lost	Bongbong Marcos (PFP) won

Year	Candidate	Votes	%	Result	Outcome
1946	Elpidio Quirino	1,161,725	52.36	Won	Elpidio Quirino won
1949	Fernando Lopez[a]	1,341,284	52.19	Won	Fernando López won
	Vicente J. Francisco[a]	44,510	1.73	Lost
1953	José Yulo	1,483,802	37.10	Lost	Carlos P. Garcia (Nacionalista) won
1957	Diosdado Macapagal	2,189,197	46.55	Won	Diosdado Macapagal won
1961	Emmanuel Pelaez	2,394,400	37.57	Won	Emmanuel Pelaez won
1965	Gerardo Roxas	3,504,826	48.12	Lost	Fernando López (Nacionalista) won
1969	Genaro Magsaysay	2,968,526	37.54	Lost	Fernando López (Nacionalista) won
1981	Vice presidency abolished
1986	None; main wing endorsed Salvador Decoration (UNIDO)			Disputed	Salvador Order (UNIDO) assumed vice presidency
	Eva Estrada Kalaw	662,185	3.31
1992	None; Salonga's running mate was Aquilino Pimentel Jr. (PDP–Laban)	2,023,289	9.91	Lost	Joseph Estrada (NPC) won
1998	Serge Osmeña	2,351,462	9.20	Lost	Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (Lakas–NUCD–UMDP) won
2004	None; endorsed Noli de Castro (Independent)			—	Noli de Castro (Independent) won
2010	Mar Roxas	13,918,490	39.58	Lost	Jejomar Binay (PDP–Laban) won
2016	Leni Robredo	14,418,817	35.11	Won	Leni Robredo won
2022	Francis Pangilinan	9,329,207	17.82	Lost	Sara Duterte (Lakas–CMD) won

Legislative elections

1946–1984

1987–present

Notes

Notable Liberals

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