The militants of the Libertarian Party of Uruguay admire the ideas of Javier Milei (Facebook Libertarian Party of Uruguay)
(From Montevideo, Uruguay) – A group of admirers of the Argentine president Javier Milei The aim is to ensure that libertarian ideas are represented in Uruguay. You think, that A “real and independent alternative” is needed.” in a country where proposals involving government involvement are widespread throughout the political system. This group, consisting predominantly of young people, does not identify with the ideas of the government coalition or the Frente Amplio and is therefore They founded their own political party.
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End of September, the Libertarian Party of Uruguay He registered his name before the Electoral Tribunal and submitted 1,725 signatures for registration in addition to his statute and certificate of incorporation. This week, Uruguayan libertarians received news that their party had been approved.
“From today onwards, the only choice that is committed to the ideas of freedom emerges. For our future, to be truly free,” they celebrated on the social network X.
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This new party asserts in its charter that it stands outside the debate between left and right and proposes to “respect the individual rights of all people”. The libertarians' proposal is to “promote a transformation of relations between the state and the inhabitants of the country” and reduce “state interference” in agreements between individuals.
“We reject demagoguery as a model of political activity and instead we offer every citizen the opportunity to determine their own destiny,” says this party.
A meeting of the Libertarian Party of Uruguay, composed of supporters of Javier Milei and authorized by the Electoral Court to participate in the country's elections.
The party's interim president is Nelson Petkovich, a 61-year-old lawyer who describes himself as a “classic liberal” and assured that there are many admirers of Milei among the members of the new group.
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In fact, at the end of 2021, the Libertarian Party organized an event with Milei to promote the new political group. On their social networks, libertarians celebrated when the candidate for Advances in freedom He won the election on November 19th. “Along with the ideas of freedom, hope is reborn; the Latin American people, united, can understand that the path is clearer,” they explained.
One of the specific issues on the Uruguayan agenda that libertarians took a stand on was the question of it Spotify threatened to withdraw from Uruguay following copyright changes, a decision the government ultimately avoided.
“A company that is well positioned in our market and meets the demands of its consumers leaves the country because it decided to introduce double taxation in its annual report. “Measures of this type lead to investments leaving the country,” they explained.
The militants of the Libertarian Party of Uruguay after obtaining the signatures for the party's registration at the electoral court (Facebook Libertarian Party of Uruguay)
They also criticized the president Luis Lacalle Pou when he expressed during a trip to China: “Free trade is freedom and protectionism limits freedom.” For libertarians, the president's statement was a lie because Spotify would leave the country due to his administration's “regulations” and because he announced that there will be more intensive controls at customs. “Stop lying to us, President“They write.
In mid-December, Uruguay's Libertarians called a meeting where they explained how the party works and concluded that they had “more than enough” conviction to propose the country's “really necessary reforms” in 2024.
With the approval of the Electoral Court, the Libertarian Party of Uruguay is eligible to participate in the electoral cycle, which begins with the primaries in June. In this case, they will have to add at least 500 votes to appear on the candidate lists in the presidential elections in October.
The electoral court also approved the party this week Constitutional Environmentalistled by the deputy Eduardo Lust, El Observador reported. The lawmaker was a member of the Cabildo Abierto, one of the ruling coalition's partners, but left that faction due to differences with its leaders.
In her program she describes the two basic principles as “alignment of the administration and management of the government at national, departmental and local levels with the state constitution” and secondly “protection of the environment and sustainable development”.