Liberty and Refoundation

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{{Expand Spanish|topic=gov|Partido Libertad y Refundación|date=November 2017}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Liberty and Refoundation

| native_name = Libertad y Refundación

| logo = Logo LIBRE.svg

| logo_size = 200px

| flag = Libertad y Refundacion Party Logo.svg

| colorcode = {{party color|Liberty and Refoundation}}

| abbreviation = Libre

| leader = Manuel Zelaya

| general_secretary = Juan Alberto Barahona Mejía

| leader1_title = President of Honduras

| leader1_name = Xiomara Castro

| founded = {{start date and age|2011|06|26|df=y}}

| split = Liberal Party of Honduras

| headquarters = Tegucigalpa

| ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap|

|Socialism of the 21st century

|Democratic socialism{{refn|{{Cite news |title=Provável primeira mulher presidente de Honduras promete "socialismo democrático" |trans-title=Honduras' likely first female president pledges "democratic socialism" |url=https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/internacional/provavel-primeira-mulher-presidente-de-honduras-promete-socialismo-democratico/ |access-date=5 February 2022 |website=CNN Brasil |language=pt-BR}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/honduras-election-peoples-will-hushed-not-silenced/ |title=In Honduras Election, the People's Will Is Hushed but Not Silenced |first=Dawn |last=Paley |date=10 December 2013 |magazine=The Nation |access-date=28 March 2016}}}}

|Progressivism{{cite magazine |url=https://www.celag.org/honduras-y-un-progresismo-que-no-despega/ |author=Nery Chaves García |title=Honduras y un progresismo que no despega |date=8 November 2019 |magazine=CELAG |access-date=29 November 2021}}

|Left-wing populism

|Anti-capitalism{{refn|{{Cite web |url=https://www.elheraldo.hn/pais/581815-214/libre-propone-conducir-a-honduras-al-socialismo-y-derogar-la-constitucion |title=Libre propone conducir a Honduras al socialismo y derogar la constitución |trans-title=Libre proposes to lead Honduras to socialism and repeal the constitution |website=Diario El Heraldo |language=es}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.laprensa.hn/premium/especiales/eleccionesgenerales2017/libre-insiste-en-una-nueva-constitucion-LELP326926 |first=Tania |last=Corona |title=Libre insiste en una nueva Constitución |trans-title=Libre insists on a new Constitution |website=www.laprensa.hn |language=es}}}}

}}

| position = Left-wing

| regional = São Paulo Forum

| international = {{Nowrap|Progressive International}}

| colours = Red and Black

| seats1_title = National Congress

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|50|128|{{party color|Liberty and Refoundation}}}}

| website = {{Official URL}}

| country = Honduras

}}

Liberty and Refoundation ({{langx|es|Libertad y Refundación}}, Libre; libre is the Spanish word for "free") is a left-wing{{cite magazine |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/167994/honduras-which-side-us |title=Honduras: Which Side Is the US On?|first=Dana |last=Frank |date=22 May 2012 |access-date=29 July 2012 |magazine=The Nation}}{{cite web|url=https://elpais.com/internacional/2021-03-16/el-triste-panorama-electoral-de-honduras.html|title=El triste panorama electoral de Honduras|website=El País|date=March 15, 2021|access-date=July 25, 2021|first=Jacobo|last=García|quote=La opción que se identifica más con la izquierda, los herederos del movimiento que coqueteaba con el chavismo y que encabezó Manuel Zelaya hasta el golpe de Estado de 2009, está aglutinada en el partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) en el que su esposa Xiomara Castro tienen más posibilidades que nadie de ser la candidata presidencial. Su principal propuesta es la transformación del país mediante una nueva Constitución.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.efe.com/efe/america/politica/once-partidos-hondurenos-minoritarios-presentan-a-candidatos-para-elecciones/20000035-4561466|title=Once partidos hondureños minoritarios presentan a candidatos para elecciones|date=June 13, 2021|access-date=July 25, 2021|website=EFE|quote=El partido Libre, de izquierda, fundado en 2011, buscará por tercera vez la presidencia del país.}} political party in Honduras. Libre was founded in 2011 by the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), a leftist coalition of organizations opposed to the 2009 coup.

Xiomara Castro, the wife of former president Manuel Zelaya who was deposed in the 2009 coup, was the presidential candidate of the party in the 2013 presidential election; Zelaya was not allowed to run for a second term under the constitution. Castro took second place in the four-way race, receiving approximately 29 percent of the vote behind Juan Orlando Hernández's 34 percent.{{cite news |url=http://mexico.cnn.com/mundo/2013/11/24/honduras-elecciones-resultados-juan-orlando-hernandez-xiomara-castro |title=El oficialista Juan Orlando Hernández encabeza la elección de Honduras |trans-title=The official Juan Orlando Hernández leads the election of Honduras |publisher=CNN Mexico |date=24 November 2013 |access-date=28 March 2016}} Castro has stated that if she won the 2021 presidential election, she would promote democratic socialism and ask the National Congress to draft a new constitution.

At least eighteen Libre pre-candidates, candidates, family members, and campaign leaders were killed between June 2012 and October 2013.{{cite web|url=http://rightsaction.org/sites/default/files/Honduras-Violence-Political-Campaign.pdf|title= Context of the Honduran Electoral Process 2012: Incomplete list of Killings and Armed Attacks Related to Political Campaigning in Honduras|author=Karen Spring|date=21 October 2013|access-date=16 November 2013|publisher=Rights Action }} Additionally, it is strongly opposed to free market capitalism and the neo-liberal economic model, and maintains a long-term goal of "establishing an alternative economic system."

On 28 November 2021, Xiomara Castro, presidential candidate of Liberty and Refoundation, won 53% of the votes in the presidential election to become the first female president of Honduras.{{cite news |title=Honduras elected its first female president, Xiomara Castro |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/honduras-elected-first-female-president-xiomara-castro-rcna7218 |work=NBC News |date=1 December 2021 |language=en}}