Classical liberalism
Ideology supporting both civil and economic liberties
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| 2025 | The People's Party of Canada contested its third federal election, fielding 247 candidates and receiving 141,210 votes (0.7%), maintaining its 6th place position and failing to win any seats in a continuing Liberal minority government. |
| 2025 | The PPC achieves its worst electoral result to date, winning less than 1% of the popular vote in the Canadian federal election. |
| March 24 2025 | CTV mistakenly displayed a graphic showing PPC polling in third place and potentially winning 84 seats, which contradicts actual polling data showing zero seat projections. |
| 2025 | Christian Lindner continues to lead the Free Democratic Party (Germany) |
| March 6 2025 | As of the current date, FDP shows mixed electoral results, with percentages between 1.1% and 10.5% across German states. |
| March 1 2025 | The Progress Party reaffirmed its support for Ukraine and called for Norway to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP. |
| January 28 2025 | Former PPC candidate Trevor Wowk faced three new charges including violations of the Tobacco Tax Act, Excise Act, and Criminal Code of Canada, in addition to previous gun-related charges. |
| January 2025 | In the subsequent snap election, FDP failed to reach the 5% threshold, losing all Bundestag seats. Christian Lindner and Wolfgang Kubicki resigned from party leadership. |
| 2024 | Participated in Seimas elections with 95,868 votes (7.85%), maintaining one seat in opposition, with performance indicating continued political relevance. |
| 2024 | Gabriel Calzada serves as president of the Mont Pelerin Society from 2021 to 2024, continuing the organization's tradition of prominent economic and political thinkers in leadership roles. |
| 2024 | In the Saxony state election, achieved less than 1% of the vote. |
| 2024 | Lost all 5 seats in the Thuringian state election, with Thomas Kemmerich losing party representation. |
| 2024 | The FDP transitions to opposition status from the governing coalition. |
| 2024 | In Thuringia, the FDP won 1.1% of votes and gained 5 seats. |
| 2024 | In Brandenburg, the FDP secured only 0.8% of votes and did not win any seats. |
| 2024 | FDP experienced varied electoral performance, with results ranging from 0.8% to 10.5% in different states. |
| 2024 | Former LPF politician Fleur Agema became Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands. |
| 2024 | Christian Tybring-Gjedde was expelled from the Progress Party, highlighting internal ideological tensions between liberal and national-conservative factions. |
| 2024 | Brad Battin becomes leader of Liberal Victoria |
| 2024 | Lia Finocchiaro becomes leader of Country Liberal party |
| 2024 | Leanne Castley becomes leader of Canberra Liberals |
| 2024 | Vincent Tarzia becomes leader of South Australian Liberals |
| November 2024 | Christian Lindner was fired as Minister of Finance, leading to the collapse of the traffic light government and resignation of key ministers Marco Buschmann and Bettina Stark-Watzinger. |
| October 18 2024 | Maxime Bernier made controversial statements about Hardeep Singh Nijjar, claiming he was not a Canadian citizen and that his murder by Indian intelligence was part of 'tribal conflicts'. |
| September 16 2024 | Sarah Couture ran in the simultaneous Elmwood—Transcona by-election, earning 1.25% of the vote. |
| September 16 2024 | Gregory Yablunovsky ran in the LaSalle—Émard—Verdun by-election, earning 0.49% of the vote. |
| June 24 2024 | Dennis Wilson ran in the Toronto—St. Paul's by-election, earning 0.64% of the vote. |
| May 2024 | In the European Parliament elections, retained 5 seats, finishing sixth behind the newly formed BSW. |
| March 4 2024 | Patricia Conlin ran as the PPC candidate in the Durham by-election, receiving 4% of the vote, compared to her 5.50% in the 2021 election. |
| 2023 | The People's Party of Canada, under Maxime Bernier's leadership, published a self-defence policy during his campaign for the Portage—Lisgar seat, proposing to legalize pepper spray for self-defence purposes by removing it from the list of prohibited weapons. |
| 2023 | The PPC ran candidates in federal by-elections in Winnipeg South Centre, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount, Portage—Lisgar, and Oxford. |
| 2023 | In the Bavarian state election, under Martin Hagen's leadership, the FDP lost all 11 seats. |
| 2023 | Lost all 12 seats in the Berlin repeat state election and over half their seats in North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein. |
| 2023 | In Hesse, the FDP received 5.0% of votes and won 3 seats in the opposition. |
| 2023 | In Bremen, the FDP secured 5.1% of votes but did not gain any seats in the parliament. |
| 2023 | Hans Andreas Limi becomes the first deputy party leader, succeeding Ketil Solvik-Olsen. |
| 2023 | Mark Speakman becomes leader of New South Wales Liberals |
| 2023 | Libby Mettam becomes leader of Western Australian Liberals |
| July 24 2023 | The PPC's 'Western Lieutenant' Kelly Lorencz ran in the Calgary Heritage by-election and lost. |
| July 24 2023 | Party leader Maxime Bernier ran in the Portage-Lisgar by-election, winning 17% of the vote but losing the election. |
| 2022 | The party changed its name and logo, removing the reference to the Republic of Lithuania. |
| 2022 | People's Party of Canada organized a rally in Waterloo, Ontario, featuring Maxime Bernier and independent MPP Randy Hillier to support the Freedom Convoy 2022's call to end COVID-19 mandates. |
| 2022 | The PPC candidate in the Mississauga—Lakeshore federal by-election received 1.2% of the vote. |
| 2022 |
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| 2022 | FDP continued to maintain relatively stable election results across various German states. |
| 2022 | In North Rhine-Westphalia, the FDP won 5.9% of votes and gained 16 seats in the opposition. |
| 2022 | In Schleswig-Holstein, the FDP obtained 6.4% of votes and won 4 seats in the opposition. |
| 2022 | Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Progress Party became amenable to receiving Ukrainian refugees. |
| 2022 | Party leader Sylvi Listhaug publicly supported the Sweden Democrats during the Swedish general election, while maintaining that fundamental policy differences prevent a formal alliance. |
| 2022 | Jeremy Rockliff becomes leader of Tasmanian Liberals |
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