Liberalism in Brazil

This article gives an overview of liberal parties in Brazil. It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒ means a reference to another party in that scheme. For inclusion in this scheme it isn't necessary so that parties labeled themselves as a liberal party.

Introduction

Liberalism was organized in Brazil since 1831 in a traditional way as the opposition to conservatism. With the republican revolution of 1889 organized liberalism disappeared. Some liberal parties were founded in twentieth century. Since 1966 liberalism was best represented by the Democratic Movement. After multi-partism became a fact, more parties labeled themselves as liberal, but the word was also used by moderate conservative forces. At the moment three parties name themselves liberal, but the Party of the Liberal Front (Partido da Frente Liberal) is a conservative party, member of the International Democrat Union. The Liberal party (Partido Liberal) and the Social Liberal Party (Partido Social Liberal) can be considered liberal parties. The centrist Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro) takes a liberal position the spectrum.

The timeline

Liberal Party (1831)

Progressive Party (1863)

New Liberal Party

Progressive Party (1882)

Republican Party

Liberal Alliance

Brazilian Democratic Movement Party

Popular Party

Liberal Front Party

Liberal Party (1985)

Social Liberal Party

Libertarians

It is a libertarian party with some classic liberal members. Libertarians has no electoral register, still can not participate in elections.

New Party

Liberal leaders

References

p.m.

See also

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/7/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.