Independent Liberty

The Independent Liberty Alliance (ILA) is a right-libertarian to left-libertarian political alliance created for the presidential campaign of Joris Jansen and Seth Woods in the June 2021 Doggerland Presidential Election. It was created on June 19, 2021 by Joris Jansen and Seth Woods to promote individual liberty and libertarian unity. In the spirit of libertarian unity, Joris Jansen and Seth Woods decided to run as Independents, though they would still secure the endorsements of the Reform Party, the Libertarian Party, and the Free & Equal Party.

The Independent Liberty Alliance would find success in the first round of the June 2021 Presidential Election on June 25, 2021, with ILA candidate Joris Jansen earning 27.5% of the vote, narrowly losing to Rune Tien-Liong at 32.5%. ILA would continue onto the second round on June 29, 2021, earning 43.9% of the vote, but losing to Rune Tien-Liong and Avery Wagers of the Forward Presidential Alliance with 56.1% of the vote. Rune Tien-Liong was re-elected to their position as President and Avery Wagers would become the new Vice President.

Instead of running in another presidential election under the ILA banner, former ILA Vice Presidential candidate, Seth Woods, plans for the alliance to transition into the Liberty Caucus upon finalizing the National Assembly caucus system. Like ILA, the Liberty Caucus would promote individual liberty and libertarian unity within the National Assembly. Free & Equal and the Reform Party acted as members of the Liberty Alliance, however, this electoral alliance was short-lived, as Joris Jansen withdrew the Reform Party from it less than a month after formation.

In September of 2021, Independent Liberty returned in the form of the Independent Liberty List, an electoral list aiming to elected libertarian-leaning Independents to the National Assembly. It was formed by former Reform Party (REF) Deputy Leader, Enrico McPartland, and former leader of the Vikingland Progressive Libertarians, Taliah Gobar. Candidates that appeared on the Independent Liberty List had no allegiance to any parties and were not beholden to a manifesto or platform, so they could vote as they pleased in the National Assembly. The Independent Liberty List first appeared in the September 2021 Doggerland legislative elections, earning 6.3% of the vote.