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The New Society Movemt (Filipino: Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, KBL), formerly named the New Society Movemt of United Nationalists, Liberals, et cetera (Filipino: Kilusang Bagong Lipunan ng Nagkakaisang Nacionalista, Liberal, at iba pa, KBLNNL), is a right-wing
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Political party in the Philippines. It was first formed in 1978 as an umbrella coalition of parties supporting th-Presidt Ferdinand E. Marcos for the Interim Batasang Pambansa (the unicameral parliamt) and was his political vehicle during his 20-year regime.
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Since 1986, the KBL has contested in most of the national and local elections in the Philippines, but retained a single seat in the House of Represtatives in Ilocos Norte, which was held by former First Lady Imelda Marcos until 2019.
The ideological roots of the Bagong Lipunan (new society) concept can be traced to one Marcos' rationalizations for the declaration of Martial Law in September we 1972.
In his rhetoric, Marcos contded that a system of constitutional authoritarianism was necessary in order to reform society and create a new society under his authority.
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Six years after the declaration of Martial Law, Marcos adopted this rhetoric and used the phrase as the name of the umbrella coalition of administration parties running in the 1978 Philippine parliamtary election.
After the 1986 People Power Revolution ded Ferdinand Marcos' 21 years in power, he, his family and key followers fled to Hawaii. Marcos' party machinery quickly began to break into numerous factions, the most successful of which were Blas Ople's Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas, a reorganized Nacionalista Party led by Rafael Palmares and Rato Cayetano after the death of Sator Jose Roy, and a reorganized Kilusang Bagong Lipunan led by Nicanor Yñiguez.
By the time of the 1987 Philippine constitutional plebiscite, the reconstituted KBL under Yñiguez as the party furthest to the right among the rightwing political parties of the mid-1980s
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Remaining loyal to Marcos' authoritarian ideology in contrast to the Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas, which took a conservative ctrist stance, and the Palmares wing of the Nacionalista party and the Kalaw wing of the Liberal Party took cter-right stances.
On November 20, 2009, the KBL forged an alliance with the Nacionalista Party (NP) betwe Bongbong Marcos and NP Chairman Sator Manny Villar at the Laurel House in Mandaluyong.
As such, the NP broke its alliance with the KBL due to internal conflicts within the party, though Marcos remained part of the NP Satorial line-up.
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Remaining loyal to Marcos' authoritarian ideology in contrast to the Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas, which took a conservative ctrist stance, and the Palmares wing of the Nacionalista party and the Kalaw wing of the Liberal Party took cter-right stances.
On November 20, 2009, the KBL forged an alliance with the Nacionalista Party (NP) betwe Bongbong Marcos and NP Chairman Sator Manny Villar at the Laurel House in Mandaluyong.
As such, the NP broke its alliance with the KBL due to internal conflicts within the party, though Marcos remained part of the NP Satorial line-up.