Liberal Party Partido Liberal | |
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President | Valdemar Costa Neto[1] |
Honorary President | Jair Bolsonaro[1] |
General Secretary | Mariucia Tozatti[1] |
First Treasurer | Jucivaldo Salazar[1] |
International Secretary | Eduardo Bolsonaro[2] |
Founded | 26 October 2006[3] |
Registered | 19 December 2006[4] |
Merger of | Liberal Party (1985) PRONA |
Headquarters | Edifício Liberty Mall Asa Norte, Brasília, Federal District |
Think tank | Instituto Fundação Alvaro Valle[5] |
Youth wing | PL Jovem |
Women's wing | PL Mulher |
Membership (2023) | ![]() |
Ideology | Populism[7] Nationalism[7] Ultraconservatism[8] Historical: Conservatism[9][10][11] |
Political position | Far-right[12][13] Historical: Centre-right[18] to right-wing[22] |
Colours | Green Yellow Blue White |
Slogan | "The people have chosen and made PL the largest party of Brazil" |
TSE Identification Number | 22 |
Governorships | 2 / 27 |
Mayors | 517 / 5,568 |
Federal Senate | 15 / 81 |
Chamber of Deputies | 95 / 513 |
Mercosur Parliament | 7 / 38 |
State Assemblies | 129 / 1,024 |
City Councillors | 4,929 / 56,810 |
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The Liberal Party (Portuguese: Partido Liberal, PL) is a far-right 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),[23] as a big tent, centre-right party,[24][15] 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.[24][25][26] 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.[27]
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,[28] and the Liberal Party took a general shift to far-right.
Se é possível a ocorrência de fenômenos populistas-nacionalistas, isto é, discursos que expressem, ao mesmo tempo, um populismo um nacionalismo, é preciso que a estrutura analítica esteja adaptada a esta possibilidade, pois não é possível que nestes casos realizese, separadamente, uma análise para identificar a lógica populista e outra para identificação de uma lógica nacionalista. Essa fusão pode ser exemplificada no seguinte trecho, extraído do discurso de lançamento de candidatura na convenção do Partido Liberal:[If it is possible for populist-nationalist phenomena to occur, that is, discourses that express both populism and nationalism at the same time, the analytical structure must be adapted to this possibility, since it is not possible to carry out, in these cases, an analysis separately to identify the populist logic and another to identify a nationalist logic. This fusion can be exemplified in the following excerpt, taken from the speech launching the candidacy at the Liberal Party convention:]
Jair Bolsonaro joined the small ultra-conservative Liberal Party in 2021.
…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…
…While at the helm of the small conservative Liberal Party (PL), Pedrosa's brother suggested she help the party fill the 30 percent…
To placate the suspicions of the business elites, Lula invited as his running mate a prominent politician from the conservative Liberal Party.
The far-right party of Brazil's outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, has challenged some votes in October's election that saw him lose narrowly to leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
To back up his claim, the far-right Liberal Party (PL) candidate Bolsonaro has boasted of the latest outlook released by the Brazilian central bank on October 7.
Luiz was a member of the far-right Liberal Party (PL) of former president Jair Bolsonaro, whose supporters in January 2023 sought to violently take control of democratic institutions in Brasilia after Lula's return to power.
"Lula's government is marked by hatred, resentment and revenge," said Julia Zanatta, a federal lawmaker with Bolsonaro's increasingly far-right Liberal party.
But Bolsonaro, who is running under the banner of the far-right Liberal Party, has been "struggling", said The Washington Post.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's far-right Liberal Party;
The perpetrator was identified as Francisco Wanderley Luiz, a 59-year-old member of the far-right Liberal Party (PL) of former president Jair Bolsonaro, whose supporters in January 2023 sought to violently take control of democratic institutions in Brasilia after the return to power of left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Seventy-seven old former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from the left-wing Workers' Party beat sixty-seven year old President Jair Bolsonaro from the far-right Liberal Party by five percentage points in the first round, four weeks ago.
The legal actions were initiated by the Liberal Party, a far-right group that supported the establishment of Jair Bolsonaro's government.
Recent disclosure shed light on the role played by the United States and a section of anti-Lula elites in Lula's controversial arrest and the rise of Bolsonaro of the far-right Liberal Party (Fishman et al. 2020; Fox 2022).
This tension is expected, given the election of a center-left president alongs idea very conservative Congress, particularly with the far-right Liberal Party holding the majority of seats.