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20-429: (Redirected from Brazilian Labor Party ) Brazilian Labour Party ( Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro - PTB) may refer to: Brazilian Labour Party (historical) , a centre-left party founded by supporters of Getúlio Vargas and dismantled after the 1964 military-led coup d'état Brazilian Labour Party (current) , a centre-right party founded, in the period of redemocratization,

40-405: A million affiliated as of 2022. 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

60-656: A prior criminal conviction. After this ruling, the party nominated Padre Kelmon Souza for president, a self-proclaimed orthodox priest who is not part of the Brazilian Orthodox Churches , and Luiz Cláudio Gamonal — an evangelical pastor — for vice president. Kelmon was accused of beginning an "auxiliary line" for Jair Bolsonaro, making a campaign for Bolsonaro and not himself, and at debates exclusively attacking Bolsonaro's opponents and praising his presidency. When Jefferson previously had announced he would launch his candidacy, he announced that it would be to support

80-409: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Brazilian Labour Party (historical) The party was founded by followers of President Getúlio Vargas on May 15, 1945, during the final days of his Estado Novo . It grew rapidly under the leadership of Vargas, the most important Brazilian politician of the early to mid-20th century. Its main goal

100-628: The Democratic Labour Party (PDT). This all but ensured that the PTB would abandon leftist politics , ultimately embracing centrist or slightly right-leaning politics. At the legislative elections of October 6, 2002, the party won 26 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 3 out of 81 seats in the Senate. In the 1989, a small dissident faction of moderate social democrats and populists abandoned

120-585: The National Congress , and all political parties, including PTB, were dissolved on October 27, 1965. Nearly all of the party merged with the bulk of the PSD to form the Brazilian Democratic Movement , the only opposition party permitted for the first decade of the military dictatorship. A new PTB , this time a centre-right party, was established by Ivete Vargas , Getúlio's niece, in 1980, with

140-631: 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 . The original PTB was a center-left labourist party with strong support from trade unions founded in 1945 by former Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas , who formerly presided the country from 1930 to 1945. After Vargas' suicide in 1954, PTB's main figures became Leonel Brizola and João Goulart , who

160-453: The populist Leonel Brizola . Since the party was a close ally of PSD, also founded by supporters of the late Vargas, it remained in power when Juscelino Kubitschek was elected president in 1955. Goulart was elected vice president in 1955 and 1960, becoming president in 1961 with the resignation of Jânio Quadros . PTB was in power again, but Goulart was overthrown by a military-led coup d'état in 1964. Various PTB figures were removed from

180-555: The PTB and founded the Labour Party of Brazil (PTdoB), which was renamed to Avante in 2017. Before the 2010 presidential election , PTB participated in the coalition government of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , and did not field presidential candidates. The party, however, did not support Lula's candidate to succeed him, Dilma Rousseff (herself a former historical PTB/PDT member), as it embarked on PSDB José Serra 's failed campaign for president. Since 2018 with

200-416: The campaign of Jair Bolsonaro. After the 2022 general elections, PTB elected only one federal deputy, failing to break through the electoral threshold and thus cutting access to party subsidies and free advertisement on television. On October, the PTB assembly voted to merge with right-wing conservative party Patriota in order to form a party tentatively titled Mais Brasil ("More Brazil"). The merger

220-641: The country. From 1945 to 1962, PTB was the third force in Brazilian politics, after the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the National Democratic Union (UDN), but it became more popular than the UDN in the 1962 Congressional elections. In 1950, Vargas was elected to a second term through PTB. Vargas committed suicide in 1954, and his heir João Goulart became the central figure in the party along with

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240-481: The end of the artificial two-party system imposed by the military regime. Brizola led the majority of the PTB's former followers into the Democratic Labour Party . Brazilian Labour Party (current) Defunct The Brazilian Labour Party ( Portuguese : Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro , PTB) was a political party in Brazil registered in 1981. It was the seventh largest political party in Brazil with more than

260-420: The first term of Dilma Rousseff — who were left-leaning presidents. Since the conservative wave in the 2010s, the party had shown strong support for the government of Jair Bolsonaro , presenting policies from a more right-wing angle, in addition to affiliating federal deputy Daniel Silveira , known for making references to AI-5 . After the 2022 Brazilian general elections , PTB failed to break through

280-420: The original PTB, led by Leonel Brizola, attempted to recreate the party, but the military government instead awarded the name to a group led by Ivete Vargas , niece of Getúlio Vargas , who became the president of the party. Many of her group were politicians who did not follow PTB's historical labourist ideology, conservatives and even former oppositors of the party. Leonel Brizola instead led his faction to found

300-549: The return to democratic rule after 1988 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Brazilian Labour Party . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brazilian_Labour_Party&oldid=822115304 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Political party disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

320-493: The rise of conservatism and Bolsonarism in Brazil (a phenomenon known as the ' conservative wave '), the party started a strong turn to right-wing politics, declaring itself an openly conservative party, supporting the government of Jair Bolsonaro and his positions. Senator Armando Monteiro left the party in 2021, calling it a "Bolsonarist cult". In 2020, Jair Bolsonaro left his original party Social Liberal Party (PSL) and failed to form his own Alliance for Brazil , PTB

340-413: Was elected vice-president in 1960 — becoming president after the resignation of Jânio Quadros — until his deposition after the 1964 coup d'état . After that PTB, along with every other Brazilian party, was banned. In 1979, the military dictatorship that had dismantled the historical PTB decided to revoke its legislation which enforced a two-party state. Soon thereafter, the social-democratic wing of

360-503: 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. 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

380-531: Was one of the parties that had extensive negotiations for affiliating him, which helped as Bolsonaro was previously a PTB member from 2003 to 2005, but the negotiations ended up failing. For the 2022 Brazilian general election , PTB initially chose Roberto Jefferson as their presidential candidate, but on 1 September 2022, the Superior Electoral Court denied Jefferson's candidacy as it ruled him ineligible for public office until 24 December 2023 due to

400-453: Was to prevent a growth of Communist Party membership among urban workers. According to Vargas himself, the party was created to "serve as a buffer between the unions and the communists." PTB's support came from the trade unions controlled by the Ministry of Labour, and its trump card was the prestige of Getúlio Vargas, its honorary chairman, which introduced social and labor legislation in

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