The Labour Party of Brazil (Partido Trabalhista do Brasil, PTdoB) is a tiny populist

Populism

Populism can be defined as an ideology, political philosophy, or type of discourse. Generally, a common theme compares "the people" against "the elite", and urges social and political system changes. It can also be defined as a rhetorical style employed by members of various political or social...

-centrist

Centrism

In politics, centrism is the ideal or the practice of promoting policies that lie different from the standard political left and political right. Most commonly, this is visualized as part of the one-dimensional political spectrum of left-right politics, with centrism landing in the middle between...

 Brazilian political party.

It was founded in 1989 by dissidents of the Brazilian Labour Party

Brazilian Labour Party (current)

The Brazilian Labour Party is a center-right political party in Brazil founded in 1981 by Ivete Vargas, niece of President Getúlio Vargas. It claims the legacy of the historical PTB, although many historians reject this because the early version of PTB was a center-left party with wide support in...

 and is a minor force in Brazilian politics. In the Brazilian General Elections of 2006

Brazilian general election, 2006

The 2006 election were marked by the now extinct "verticalization rule", which forced parties to form coalitions on a state level with the same parties with which they were allied nationwide. This rule was introduced at the 2002 general elections by the Supreme Electoral Court.All Chamber of...

, the party elected one representative to the Federal Chamber, and had 0.3% of the national votes (311,000 votes) for the Legislative. In 1998, the party chose João de Deus Barbosa as its Presidential candidate; he received 200,000 votes (0.2%). The party has some seats in state assemblies and hundreds of local councillors, and the municipal governments of 20 small cities in Brazil.