Livres (movement)

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Free Livres
President	Magno Karl
Founder	Sérgio Bivar Felipe Melo França Fabio Ostermann
Founded	2016; 8 years ago (2016)
Split from	Social Liberal Party
Headquarters	São Paulo
Membership	4400
Ideology	Liberalism
Political position	Centre
Colours	Purple
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies (2018)	8 / 513
Seats in the Senate (2018)	1 / 81
State deputies (2018)	8 / 1,035
City councillors (2020)	16 / 57,720
Mayors	1 / 5,570
Website
eusoulivres.org
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Livres (Portuguese: Free) is a Brazilian economic liberal political movement. The political scientist Magno Karl is Livres' current executive director. Livres has 25 members holding public office positions, among them one senator (Rodrigo Cunha from the Brazilian Social Democracy Party in Alagoas), seven federal deputies, and eight state deputies and nine city councillors, along with economists, political scientists, and more than three thousand registered activists.

Livres went on to grow as a liberal wing of the PSL and control the party's political agenda, communication, and 13 out of its 27 state directories. Inspired by Livres' liberal approach, notable Brazilian public intellectuals, such as political scientist Fábio Ostermann and journalist Leandro Narloch, openly supported the PSL. In January 2018, Livres split from the PSL after conservative Jair Bolsonaro joined the party. The PSL subsequently dropped social liberalism altogether from its platform, adopting national conservatism and social conservatism. Today, Livres is not a party but a political movement. Although many politicians are still members of the organisation, Livres does not run its own candidates and instead acts as a pressure group supporting cultural liberalism and economic liberal candidates and policies.