Brazilian Woman's Party

Brazilian Woman's Party
Partido da Mulher Brasileira
AbbreviationPMB
PresidentSuêd Haidar Nogueira
Founded2008[1]
Registered29 September 2015; 9 years ago (2015-09-29)[2]
Membership (2024)Increase 56,166[3]
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing
ColorsDark blue
Party number35
Legislative Assemblies[7]
3 / 1,024
Mayors[8]
2 / 5,569
Municipal Chambers[9][10]
109 / 58,208
Website
pmb.org.br

The Brazilian Woman's Party[11][12] (Portuguese: Partido da Mulher Brasileira, PMB) is a right-wing political party in Brazil which uses the number 35.[13] Known for its non-feminist and anti-abortion stance, the party is not represented in the National Congress.[14]

The PMB was founded in 2015 by Sued Haidar, who doubled as the president of the party's National Committee.[15] At its peak, the party was the tenth largest in Congress,[16] represented by 21 federal deputies in the Chamber of Deputies,[15] only two of which were women,[16] and one representative in the Federal Senate, Senator Hélio José.[16] All later switched to other parties. In 2017, the party was condemned by the Superior Electoral Court of Minas Gerais for not having the minimum quota of women candidates.[17] Most of the deputies have since left the party, and José switched his party affiliation to the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party in March 2016.[18]

In January 2017, the PMB had 38,438 members.[19] As of July 2018, this number has grown to 42,619.[19]

On 2021, the party attempted to change its name to "Brasil 35", a modification made to attract the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro after he left his original Social Liberal Party and failed to create his own Alliance for Brazil,[20][21] and mark the transition of the party to conservatism.[22] However, in April 2022, the Superior Electoral Court refused the name change, on the basis that "the change of the party's name to “Brasil”, [...] would have intense potential to generate confusion or mislead the electorate."[23]

  1. ^ "TSE aprova criação do Partido da Mulher Brasileira, 35ª legenda do país". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). 29 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Partidos políticos registrados no TSE". Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (in Portuguese). Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Filiação partidária mensal | Estatísticas". Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (in Portuguese). Retrieved 8 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Partido da Mulher Brasileira não levanta a bandeira feminista". Pública (in Portuguese). 17 December 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  5. ^ Araújo, Thiago de (12 February 2016). "Em entrevista, Denise Abreu diz que "o PMB é antifeminista"". Exame (in Portuguese). Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  6. ^ Klein, Cristian (2 September 2015). "Partido da Mulher tem mais homens e é antiaborto". Valor Econômico (in Portuguese). No. 3833. Senado Federal. p. A10. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  7. ^ "Raio-X das eleições: Leia como serão as assembleias em 2023". Poder360 (in Portuguese). 11 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Relembre quantos prefeitos e vereadores cada partido elegeu em 2020". Poder360 (in Portuguese). 6 October 2023.
  9. ^ "Vereadores eleitos por partido em 2020". Poder360 (in Portuguese).
  10. ^ "Eleições 2020: 58.208 vagas de vereadores estarão em disputa neste domingo (15)". Superior Electoral Court (in Portuguese). 14 November 2020.
  11. ^ "A historic turning point in Brazil • International Socialism". International Socialism. 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  12. ^ "In Brazil, women remain tremendously underrepresented". The Brazilian Report. 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  13. ^ "Partido da Mulher Brasileira". Tribunal Superior Eleitoral. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  14. ^ Salek, Silvia (May 16, 2016). "How Rousseff has highlighted Brazil's sexism problem". BBC. Brazil. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  15. ^ a b "An Anti-feminist Women's Party". plus55. 24 February 2016. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  16. ^ a b c Douglas, Bruce (29 December 2015). "The Party of the Brazilian Woman is not actually a women's political party". The Guardian. Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  17. ^ "Partido da Mulher Brasileira é condenado por não dar espaço para mulheres". Estado de Minas (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
  18. ^ Shalom, David; Iory, Nicolas (24 March 2016). "Após ascensão meteórica, novato PMB se torna menor partido do Congresso Nacional". Último Segundo. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  19. ^ a b "Estatísticas do eleitorado – Eleitores filiados". Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  20. ^ "PMB é o décimo partido que muda de nome em dez anos; veja outros". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  21. ^ R7. "Bolsonaro vai filiar-se ao Partido da Mulher Brasileira para disputar a reeleição". Correio do Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-10-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ null. "Como o ex-Partido da Mulher abandonou o progressismo, virou conservador e atraiu Weintraub". Gazeta do Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-10-27.
  23. ^ "TSE mantém rejeição à mudança de nome do Partido da Mulher Brasileira (PMB)". Superior Electoral Court. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.