"Human dignity begins when no one can force you to live as someone else commands." — Liberal Manifesto (2025, Pedro Tellería)

Introduction

  • I declare myself a liberal thinker, in the classical and philosophical sense.
  • I place myself outside the traditional left-right axis, nationalism, or organized religiosity.
  • I acknowledge that my position is a minority one in today’s political context, but I assume it with conviction and clarity.

Fundamental Principles

  • Individual liberty: Every human being has the right to pursue their own life project freely, limited only by respect for the liberty of others.
  • Private property: An extension of the individual, the material basis of personal freedom. It includes the body, time, material goods, capital goods, and intellectual property.
  • Voluntary contracts: Free agreements between individuals must be respected and protected.
  • Non-aggression principle: Rejection of any physical or economic coercion used to alter someone’s will.
  • Subsidiarity: What an individual can do, the government should not. What a family, a company, or an association can do, the bureaucrat should not invade.

Role of the State

  • Minimal state: Its existence is justified only for essential functions: justice, internal and external security, essential public works, protection of the weak.
  • Limitation of public spending: It should never exceed 10% of GDP.
  • Areas excluded from state intervention: Based on subsidiarity, I exclude significant state involvement in Education, Healthcare, Pensions, Culture, Media, R&D, Sports, Transport, Energy.
  • Critique of the current model: The Spanish State, in all its layers, acts as an enemy of personal liberty, coercing voluntary cooperation between individuals.

Economy and Market

  • Defense of the market economy: Free competition, private property, respect for contracts, zero inflation (0%).
  • Science and Technology: Essential tools for human progress. Knowledge and technical development are liberating forces.

Critique of Current Collectivism

  • Hypertrophic state: It directly controls over 45% of GDP, regulates another 20–30%, and invades personal and social life.
  • Ideological assault: Education and media as tools of cultural and thought control. Manipulated language. Suppression of critical thinking.
  • Excessive state burden: Abusive and opaque taxation, high public debt, inefficient services.
  • Victimhood and identity culture: Society fragmented into grievance groups. Moral supremacy without responsibility.

Personal Values and Virtues

  • Equality of opportunity.
  • Social and economic mobility.
  • Saving and property as foundations of freedom.
  • Discipline, effort, dedication.
  • Protection of the truly weak.
  • Rethought, secular morality.
  • Equality before the law.

Political Declaration

In coherence with this thinking:

  • I do not collaborate with political or social structures that violate these principles.
  • I will exercise intellectual criticism and free association.
  • I will only support initiatives that respect individual liberty, private property, and voluntary contract.