Progressive Party (Brazil, 1993)

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Progressive Party Partido Progressista
Abbreviation	PP
President	Alvaro Dias
Founded	May 27, 1993
Dissolved	September 24, 1995
Preceded by	Social Labour Party Renovator Labour Party
Merged into	Brazilian Progressive Party
Ideology	Conservatism
Political position	Centre-right
Politics of Brazil Political parties Elections

The Progressive Party (Portuguese: Partido Progressista, PP) was a political party in Brazil founded in 1993 by the Social Labour Party and the Reform Labour Party.

In 1995 the party merged with the Reform Progressive Party into Brazilian Progressive Party.

This new party re-changed its name to the Progressive Party in 2003.

Its first national president was Alvaro Dias, former governor and now senator for Podemos in the state of Paraná, having been a candidate for the government of Paraná in 1994, coming in 2nd place, being defeated by Jaime Lerner