Social Labour Party

Social Labour Party
Partido Social Trabalhista
AbbreviationPST
Founded1983
(refounded in 1994)
Registered12 June 1990
28 August 1996
Dissolved1 April 2003
Merged intoProgressive Party (1993)
Liberal Party (2003)
Political positionCentre-right
Electoral number52 (1990–1993)
18 (1994–2003)

The Social Labour Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Trabalhista, PST) was a Brazilian political party. Founded in 1983, with the publication of its manifesto and statute, it received permanent registration in 1990 and, three years later, merged with the Renewal Labour Party (PTR), creating the Progressive Party. The party was recreated in 1994 and contested every election from then until 2003, the year in which it was merged into the Liberal Party.

According to one of its leaders, Dalmo Honaiser, the PST was a centre-right party based on the alliance between medium and small entrepreneurs, liberal professionals and workers. The party's manifesto included support for medium and small businesses, the strengthening of democratic institutions and the progressive taxation of unproductive land as a means of carrying out agrarian reform.[1]

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