Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006)

Not to be confused with Liberal Party (1985–2006) or Liberal Party (1831–1889).

Liberal Party
Partido Liberal
PresidentValdemar Costa Neto[1]
Honorary PresidentJair Bolsonaro[1]
General SecretaryMariucia Tozatti[1]
First TreasurerJucivaldo Salazar[1]
Founded26 October 2006; 18 years ago (26 October 2006)[2]
Registered19 December 2006; 17 years ago (19 December 2006)[3]
Merger ofLiberal Party (1985)
PRONA
HeadquartersEdifício Liberty Mall Asa Norte, Brasília, Federal District
Think tankInstituto Fundação Alvaro Valle[4]
Youth wingPL Jovem
Women's wingPL Mulher
Membership (2023)Decrease 760,995[5]
IdeologyConservatism[6][7][8]
Conservative liberalism[9]
Economic liberalism
Political positionCentre-right[14] to right-wing[18]
Faction:
Far-right[19]
Colours  Green
  Yellow
  Blue
  White
Slogan"The people have chosen and made PL the largest party of Brazil"
TSE Identification Number22
Governorships
2 / 27
Mayors
348 / 5,568
Federal Senate
12 / 81
Chamber of Deputies
99 / 513
Mercosur Parliament
7 / 38
State Assemblies
129 / 1,024
City Councillors
4,929 / 56,810
Party flag
Website
partidoliberal.org.br
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The Liberal Party (Portuguese: Partido Liberal, PL) is a liberal-conservative political party in Brazil. From its foundation in 2006 until 2019, it was called the Party of the Republic (Portuguese: Partido da República, PR).

The party was founded in 2006 as a merger of the 1985 Liberal Party and the Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (PRONA),[9] as a big tent, centre-right party,[20][11] and was considered part of the Centrão, a bloc of parties without consistent ideological orientation that support different sides of the political spectrum in order to gain political privileges.[20][21][22] As such, it supported the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff— members of the center-left Workers' Party—and Michel Temer.[23]

In 2021, it became the base of the then-president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, for the 2022 Brazilian general election. This led to many of his supporters joining the party, which thereby became the largest bloc in the National Congress of Brazil,[24] and the Liberal Party took a general shift to right-wing populism.[9]

  1. ^ a b c d "Membros da Executiva Nacional". Partido Liberal. 9 February 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  2. ^ "História do Partido da República (até 2014)". Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Partidos políticos registrados no TSE". TSE. Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  4. ^ ":: Fundação Alvaro Valle ::". institutoalvarovalle.org.br. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  5. ^ TSE. "Estatísticas do eleitorado – Eleitores filiados". Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  6. ^ Gustavo A. Flores-Macias, ed. (2012). After Neoliberalism?: The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-19989167-2. …Lula's PT government enjoyed the congressional support of the conservative Liberal Party (PL), the vice… system is fragmented but in disarray—the comparatively institutionalized party system in Brazil makes fragmentation more…
  7. ^ Kristin N. Wylie, ed. (2018). Party Institutionalization and Women's Representation in Democratic Brazil. Cambridge University Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-1-108429795. …While at the helm of the small conservative Liberal Party (PL), Pedrosa's brother suggested she help the party fill the 30 percent…
  8. ^ Lee J. Alston; Marcus André Melo; Bernardo Mueller, eds. (2016). Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change. Princeton University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-40088094-2. To placate the suspicions of the business elites, Lula invited as his running mate a prominent politician from the conservative Liberal Party.
  9. ^ a b c Brasil, CPDOC-Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação História Contemporânea do. "PARTIDO LIBERAL (PL)". CPDOC - Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  10. ^ "O que significa esquerda, direita e centro na política?". Estadão.
  11. ^ a b "Bolsonaro to join center-right PL party to take on leftist Lula". Reuters. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  12. ^ Gomez Bruera, Hernan (2013). Lula, the Workers' Party and the Governability Dilemma in Brazil. Routledge. p. 77.
  13. ^ "Brazil's Bolsonaro officially joins centre-right Liberal Party". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  14. ^ [10][11][12][13]
  15. ^ "Partidos em números: PP e PL". Pindograma. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  16. ^ Congresso em Foco (3 March 2021). "Radar do Congresso: Governismo". Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  17. ^ "Bolsonaro to join right-wing Liberal Party for re-election campaign". The Brazilian Report. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  18. ^ [15][16][17]
  19. ^ "Bolsonaro is leaving office, but his far-right movement is here to stay". Open Democracy.
  20. ^ a b joaogado (8 December 2020). "Partidos em números: PP e PL". Pindograma. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  21. ^ "Bolsonaro se filia ao PL e volta ao centrão em evento com ataques a Lula e Moro". Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 30 November 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  22. ^ "'Vocês votaram num cara do Centrão', diz Bolsonaro sobre críticas por ingresso no PL". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 10 January 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  23. ^ Estadão. "Basômetro: acompanhe o governismo na Câmara". Estadão (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  24. ^ "Bancada dos partidos — Portal da Câmara dos Deputados". www.camara.leg.br. Retrieved 18 October 2022.