Its origins date back to late 1983, when a group of former members of the old Liberal Party Youth decided to form the Liberal Movement, supporter of individual freedoms and the restoration of democracy by peaceful means.
Among its members were Hernán Errazuriz Talavera, who would be ambassador to the United Kingdom during the government of Patricio Aylwin, medical director Arturo Brandt, Gastón Ureta, Gonzalo Gazmuri, Guillermo Toro and Claudio Cerda.
[1] Eventually, it started taking a decidedly oppositional character to Pinochet's regime, which led them to join the Democratic Alliance in October 1984.
Subsequently signed the National Agreement and constituted the ephemeral Democratic Federation (Spanish: Federación Democrática) in 1985 with the National Party and the Republican Party.
[1] The alignment of the liberals with the opposition led some critics party members decided to secede from the main Liberal Party.