Brazilian Labour Party (1981)

Not to be confused with its predecessor, the historical Brazilian Labour Party, or the Workers' Party.
Brazilian Labour Party
Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro
PresidentMarcus Vinícius Neskau[1]
Honorary PresidentRoberto Jefferson
FounderIvete Vargas
Founded21 November 1979 (1979-11-21)
Registered3 November 1981 (1981-11-03)
Dissolved9 November 2023 (2023-11-09)
Merger ofParty of the Nation's Retirees
Social Democratic Party
Preceded byBrazilian Labour Party
Merged intoDemocratic Renewal Party
HeadquartersSAS, Qd. 1, Bloco M, Ed. Libertas, Loja 101
Brasília, Brazil
Think tankFundação Ivete Vargas
Youth wingJuventude Trabalhista Cristã Conservadora
Historical:
Juventude do PTB
Membership (November 2021)Decrease1,075,750[2]
IdeologySocial conservatism
Brazilian nationalism
Right-wing populism[3]
National conservatism
Christian right[4]
Catholic social teaching[5]
Factions:
Anarcho-capitalism[6]
Brazilian Integralism[7]
Economic liberalism
Historical:
Getulism
Labourism[8]
Left-wing nationalism[8]
Political positionRight-wing to far-right[3]
Historical:
Centre-left[9]
Colours  White
  Yellow
  Green
  Blue
Slogan"God, Family, Homeland and Freedom"
TSE Identification Number14
Website
ptb.org.br
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The Brazilian Labour Party (Portuguese: Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro, PTB) was a political party in Brazil registered in 1981.[10] It was the seventh largest political party in Brazil with more than a million affiliated as of 2022.[11]

The party was founded by Ivete Vargas, niece of President Getúlio Vargas, and claimed the legacy of the historical PTB founded by Getúlio, although many historians reject this because while early version of PTB was a center-left party with wide support in the working class, and dspite the name suggesting a left-leaning unionist labour party, the later PTB was mainly a big tent centrist party for most of its history, considered part of the Centrão, a bloc of parties without consistent ideological orientation which supports different sides of the political spectrum in order to gain political privileges.[12] As such, they supported the presidency of Fernando Collor de Mello, Itamar Franco, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso — all considered center-right — as well as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the first term of Dilma Rousseff — who were left-leaning presidents.[13] Since the conservative wave in the 2010s, the party had shown strong support for the government of Jair Bolsonaro,[14] presenting policies from a more right-wing angle, in addition to affiliating federal deputy Daniel Silveira, known for making references to AI-5.[15]

After the 2022 Brazilian general elections, PTB failed to break through the electoral threshold, thus cutting access to party subsidies and free political advertisement. Thus, in November 2023, it merged with the party Patriota to form the Democratic Renewal Party.[16]

  1. ^ "Partidos políticos registrados no TSE". Superior Electoral Court (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Estatísticas do eleitorado – Eleitores filiados". Archived from the original on 2014-07-11. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  3. ^ a b "De partido sem ideologia a sigla dos "leões conservadores": Como o PTB quer atrair Bolsonaro".
  4. ^ "MOVIMENTO CRISTÃO CONSERVADOR MCC PTB".
  5. ^ "Uma análise da Rerum Novarum e suas influências no Direito do Trabalho".
  6. ^ "Partidos vão investir em influenciadores, ex-BBBs e policiais como 'puxadores de voto'".
  7. ^ "PTB bolsonarista filia integralistas e ruma à extrema-direita".
  8. ^ a b Alvim, Mariana (31 January 2018). "De Getúlio Vargas a Cristiane Brasil, como o PTB passou do trabalhismo histórico aos ataques à Justiça do Trabalho". BBC News Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  9. ^ Derbyshire, J. Denis; Derbyshire, Ian (1989). Political Systems Of The World. Allied Publishers. p. 114. ISBN 9788170233077. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  10. ^ "Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Brazil". Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  11. ^ "Estatísticas do eleitorado – Eleitores filiados". Archived from the original on 2014-07-11. Retrieved 2021-12-29.
  12. ^ "O que quer o chamado centrão em sua investida eleitoral". Nexo Jornal (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-10-08.
  13. ^ efe. "PTB e PDT anunciam saída de base de apoio do governo Dilma". Terra (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-10-08.
  14. ^ "De partido sem ideologia a sigla dos "leões conservadores": como o PTB quer atrair Bolsonaro". Gazeta do Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  15. ^ "Roberto Jefferson diz que Daniel Silveira se filiou ao PTB". ISTOÉ Independente (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  16. ^ "TSE aprova criação do Partido Renovação Democrática (PRD)". Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2023-11-09. Retrieved 2023-11-10.