Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006)

The Liberal Party (Portuguese: Partido Liberal, PL) is a Brazilian right-wing political party. From its foundation until 2019, it was called the Party of the Republic (Portuguese: Partido da República, PR).

For the extinct Liberal Party, see Liberal Party (Brazil).
Liberal Party
Partido Liberal
PresidentValdemar Costa Neto[1]
Honour PresidentAlfredo Nascimento[1]
General SecretaryMariucia Tozatti[1]
First TreasurerJucivaldo Salazar[1]
Founded26 October 2006 (26 October 2006)[2]
Registered19 December 2006 (19 December 2006)[3]
Merger of
HeadquartersEdifício Liberty Mall Asa Norte, Brasília, Federal District
Women's wingPL Mulher
Membership761,699[4]
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing[5][6][7]
Historical:
Centre-right[8]
Colours  Blue
  Red
TSE Identification Number22
Think TankInstituto Fundação Alvaro Valle
Chamber of Deputies (2021)
37 / 513
Senate (2021)
3 / 81
Legislative Assemblies (2021)
43 / 1,024
Website
pl22.com.br

The Liberal Party belongs to Centrão, an informal group of political parties that monetized their support in exchange for important positions for their members or subsidies for the electoral strongholds of their elected officials.

Among the famous PL members are Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Tiririca, Romário, Marco Feliciano, Flávia Arruda, Valdemar Costa Neto and Flávio Bolsonaro.

History

Party of the Republic was founded on October 26, 2006, by the merger of the old Liberal Party and the Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (Partido da Reedificação da Ordem Nacional, PRONA).

At the 2010 elections, PL focused on the parliamentary elections; it won 41 of the 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 4 of the 81 Senate seats.

Sergio Victor Tamer, the PR's founder, was president from 2006-2014. Alfredo Nascimento succeeded Tamer as president of the PR until April 2016, when he resigned due to party leadership not supporting the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. However, 26 of the PR's MPs did vote for her impeachment.

On 7 May 2019, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) voted to approve a motion of the party to change its name back to Liberal Party (PL).[9]

On November 30, 2021, President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro and his son Senator Flávio Bolsonaro joined the PL in preparation for the 2022 Brazilian general election (as presidential candidates must be affiliated with a political party). He had previously considered returning to the Progressistas, which he had been a member of from 1995–2003 and 2005–2016.

Controversies

Liberal Party leaders are frequently implicated in corruption cases. Its president, Valdemar Costa Neto, was convicted of corruption and money laundering in the Mensalão scandal. The party's vice president, Carlos "Bispo" Rodrigues, former transport minister Anderson Adauto and former party treasurer Jacinto Lodos, as well as several deputies and councillors, were also charged in the case.[10]

The Liberal Party caused controversy in 2020 by nominating an openly neo-Nazi activist as a candidate for the municipal elections in the city of Pomerode. [11]

References
  1. "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. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  4. TSE. "Estatísticas do eleitorado – Eleitores filiados". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  5. "Partidos em números: PP e PL". Pindograma. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  6. Congresso em Foco (3 March 2021). "Radar do Congresso: Governismo". Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  7. "Bolsonaro to join right-wing Liberal Party for re-election campaign". The Brazilian Report. 2021-11-08. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  8. Gomez Bruera, Hernan (2013). Lula, the Workers' Party and the Governability Dilemma in Brazil. Routledge. p. 77.
  9. "Aprovada alteração do nome do Partido da República (PR) para Partido Liberal (PL)" (in Portuguese). Tribunal Superior Eleitoral. 7 May 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  10. https://extra.globo.com/noticias/brasil/desde-2000-623-politicos-foram-cassados-dem-lidera-ranking-diz-pesquisa-727489.html
  11. https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/brazil/neo-nazi-groups-continue-to-grow-in-brazil-santa-catarina-state-takes-centerstage/
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