The New Society Movement (Filipino: Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, KBL), formerly named the New Society Movement of United Nationalists, Liberals, et cetera (Filipino: Kilusang Bagong Lipunan ng Nagkakaisang Nacionalista, Liberal, at iba pa, KBLNNL), is a right-wing^[7][8] political party in the Philippines. It was first formed in 1978 as an umbrella coalition of parties supporting then-President Ferdinand E. Marcos for the Interim Batasang Pambansa (the unicameral parliament) and was his political vehicle during his 20-year regime.^[9] It was reorganized as a political party in 1986,^[10] and is the furthest to the right of the political spectrum among active parties after Marcos' ouster.^[10]

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New Society Movement Kilusang Bagong Lipunan
President	Efren "Rambo" Rafanan
Chairman	Imelda Marcos (emerita)
Secretary-General	Joeme Erroba
Founder	Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
Founded	February 1978; 46 years ago (1978-02)
Split from	Nacionalista Liberal
Headquarters	3rd Floor Narsan Bldg. West 4th, Brgy. West Triangle, Quezon City Quezon City
Ideology	Conservatism[1][2][3][4] Anti-communism[5][4] Libertarianism[6][verification needed] Historical: Authoritarianism
Political position	Right-wing[7]
National affiliation	UniTeam
Colors	Blue,   white,   red, and   yellow
Seats in the Senate	0 / 24
Seats in the House of Representatives	0 / 316
Provincial governorships	1 / 81
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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 Representatives 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.^[11]: "66" In his rhetoric, Marcos contended that a system of "constitutional authoritarianism" was necessary in order to "reform society" and create a "new society" under his authority.^{[11]: "29" [12][13]}

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 parliamentary election.^[9] The coalition retained the name when it was reorganized as a political party in 1986.

After the 1986 People Power Revolution ended 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 Renato Cayetano after the death of Senator Jose Roy, and a reorganized Kilusang Bagong Lipunan led by Nicanor Yñiguez.^[14][15]

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^[10] - remaining loyal to Marcos' authoritarian ideology in contrast to the Partido Nacionalista ng Pilipinas, which took a conservative centrist stance, and the Palmares wing of the Nacionalista party and the Kalaw wing of the Liberal Party took center-right stances.^[14]

On November 20, 2009, the KBL forged an alliance with the Nacionalista Party (NP) between Bongbong Marcos and NP Chairman Senator Manny Villar at the Laurel House in Mandaluyong.^{[16][failed verification]} Bongbong was later on removed as a member by the KBL National Executive Committee on November 29.^[17] As such, the NP broke its alliance with the KBL due to internal conflicts within the party, though Marcos remained part of the NP Senatorial line-up.^{[16][failed verification]}

• Vetellano Acosta – Presidential Candidate (lost)
• Jay Sonza – Vice Presidential Candidate (lost)
• Senatorial slate:
  1. Alma Lood (lost)
  2. Hector Villanueva (lost)
  3. Shariff Ibrahim Albani (lost)