Liberal Democratic Party (Valenzuela)

The Liberal Democratic Party of Valenzuela (Spanish: Partido Liberal Democrático de Valenzuela) is a major progressive centre-left political party in Valenzuela and is one of the five contemporary political parties represented in the unicameral National Assembly, alongside the Liberal Party (LIB), the Lucha de Valenzuelanos Democráticos (LVD), the People's Democratic Alternative (PDA), and the Conservative Party (CONS). In all general elections since 1967, the LDP has been in power almost continuously except from 1997 to 2002. Since the 2017 general election, it holds 54 seats in the unicameral National Assembly.

Although the LDP deliberately never identified itself with a particular brand of leftism, it nevertheless "always defined itself as socialist" and espoused many radical positions. Over the next few years after Pavia stepping down as the president of the country after 20 years, the party moderated a bit, but it never clearly shed its radicalism and undertook no major reforms of party principles.