This article gives an overview of liberal parties in Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. It is limited to liberal

Liberalism

Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...

 parties

Political party

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 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 IDU

IDU

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. The Liberal party

Liberal Party (Brazil)

The Liberal Party was a conservative political party of Brazil, merged in the Republic Party. The Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus had been taking part in Brazilian elections through PL, but the church has now partially left it to create a new centrist party named Partido Republicano Brasileiro...

 (Partido Liberal) and the Social Liberal Party

Social Liberal Party (Brazil)

The Social Liberal Party is a liberal party in Brazil. At the legislative elections, 6 October 2002, the party won 1 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and no seats in the Senate. In 2006 didn't win seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate...

 (Partido Social Liberal) can be considered liberal parties. The centrist Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement

Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement

The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party is the successor of the Brazilian Democratic Movement. It is a big tent party, including a range of politicians from conservatives as José Sarney to liberals as Pedro Simon, left-liberals as Roberto Requião, populists as Íris Resende, nationalists as Orestes...

 (Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro) takes a liberal position the spectrum.

Liberal Party (1831)

• 1831: In resistance to the imperial regime liberals formed in 1831 the Liberal Party (Partido Liberal), loosely connected to the urban petty bourgeoisie. It became the leading progressive party during the monarchy.
• 1863: A left wing faction forms the ⇒ Progressive Party.
• 1868: The Progressive Party reunited with the party.
• 1869: A left wing faction formed the ⇒ New Liberal Party.
• 1882: A new Progressive Party is formed.
• 1889: After the fall of the monarchy the party disappeared.

Progressive Party (1863)

• 1863: A left wing faction of the ⇒ Liberal Party forms the Progressive Party (Partido Progresista) .
• 1868: The party reunited with the ⇒ Liberal Party

New Liberal Party

• 1869: A left wing faction of the ⇒ Liberal Party forms the New Liberal Party, led by Joaquím Nabuco
  Joaquim Nabuco
  Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo was a Brazilian writer, statesman, and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of his country.-Biography:...
  
  . Unclear is the further existence of the party.

Progressive Party (1882)

• 1882: A left wing faction of the ⇒ Liberal Party forms the Progressive Party (Partido Progresista).
• 1889: After the fall of the monarchy the party disappeared.

Republican Party

• 1870: The Republican Party (Partido Republicano), a party of the urban middle class, is formed.
• 1889: After the fall of the monarchy the party disappeared.

Liberal Alliance

• 1930: The liberal bourgeoisie formed the Liberal Alliance (Aliança Liberal), led by Getúlio Dornelles Vargas. After he lost the fixed elections of 1930 the party came to power in a revolution.
• 1934: When Vargas establishes in 1934 an authoritarian regime, the party fell apart.

Brazilian Democratic Movement Party

• 1966: The military government allowed in a bi-partisan system the formation of a democratic opposition party, the Brazilian Democratic Movement (Movimento Democrático Brasileiro). In this party liberals are united with social democrats and socialists. The party is led by Oscar Passos, Pedroso Horta (since 1970) and Ullyses Guimarães.
• 1979: The party is reorganized into the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro, PMDB).
• 1981: The ⇒ Popular Party merged into the PMDB.
• 1988: The Party of the Brazilian Social Democracy seceded from the party.

Popular Party

• 1980: A liberal faction of the National Renewal Alliance established the liberal Popular Party (Partido Popular), led by Tancredo de Almeida Neves.
• 1981: The PP merged into the ⇒ Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement.

Liberal Front Party

• 1985: The centre-right Liberal Front Party (Partido da Frente Liberal) is formed by a secession from the Democratic Social Party
  Democratic Social Party
  The Democratic Social Party was a conservative Brazilian political party.It was established in 1979 as a continuation of the National Renewal Alliance Party , the party which supported the 1965-79 Brazilian dictatorship, at a time in which the country turned to be a democracy...
  
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• 2005: PFL changes name into the Democrats
  Democrats (Brazil)
  The Democrats is a centre-right political party in Brazil, considered the main in the right-wing spectrum. Despite its former name , the party affiliates itself to the Centrist Democrat International, and the International Democrat Union. The name comes from its support to free market policies...
  
  (Democratas).

Liberal Party (1985)

• 1985: The centre-right Liberal Party
  Liberal Party (Brazil)
  The Liberal Party was a conservative political party of Brazil, merged in the Republic Party. The Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus had been taking part in Brazilian elections through PL, but the church has now partially left it to create a new centrist party named Partido Republicano Brasileiro...
  
  (Partido Liberal) is formed.

Social Liberal Party

• 1998: The Social Liberal Party
  Social Liberal Party (Brazil)
  The Social Liberal Party is a liberal party in Brazil. At the legislative elections, 6 October 2002, the party won 1 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and no seats in the Senate. In 2006 didn't win seats in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate...
  
  (Partido Social Liberal) is formed.

Liberal leaders

• Joaquim Nabuco
  Joaquim Nabuco
  Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo was a Brazilian writer, statesman, and a leading voice in the abolitionist movement of his country.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tancredo Neves
  Tancredo Neves
  Tancredo de Almeida Neves, SFO more commonly Tancredo Neves was a Brazilian politician. He was born in São João del Rey, in the state of Minas Gerais, of mostly Portuguese, but also Austrian descent and graduated in law. The Neves family name comes from an Azorean great great grandfather...
  
  
• Ulysses Guimarães
• Rui Barbosa

See also

• History of Brazil
  History of Brazil
  The history of Brazil begins with the arrival of the first indigenous peoples, thousands of years ago by crossing the Bering land bridge into Alaska and then moving south....
  
  
• Politics of Brazil
  Politics of Brazil
  The politics of Brazil take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic, where by the President is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system...
  
  
• List of political parties in Brazil