Progressistas

Progressistas (Progressives; PP) is a right-wing conservative-liberal[5][3] political party in Brazil.

Progressistas
President	Ciro Nogueira Lima Filho
Founded	April 14, 1995 (as PPB) April 4, 2003 (as PP)
Merger of	Reform Progressive Party (PPR), Progressive Party (PP)
Headquarters	Senado Federal - Anexo - 17º Andar, Brasília São Paulo
LGBT wing	PP Diversidade
Membership	1,437,447 [1]
Ideology	Anti-abortion[2] Conservative liberalism[3] Market liberalism[4] National conservatism[2] Nationalism[4] Social conservatism[2]
Political position	Centre-right[5] to right-wing[6]
Colours	Blue      Red
TSE Identification Number	11
Chamber of Deputies	34 / 513
Federal Senate	6 / 81
Governorships	1 / 27
State Assemblies	70 / 1,060
City councillors	4,840 / 51,610
Website
www.pp.org.br
Politics of Brazil Political parties Elections

History

Old Partido Progressista logo.

Founded in 1995, as Brazilian Progressive Party (PPB), by the union of:

• the Reform Progressive Party, founded in 1993 by Democratic Social Party and Christian Democratic Party;
• the Progressive Party, founded in 1993 by the Social Labour Party and the Reform Labour Party.

The party entered in coalition with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party and the Liberal Front Party, supporting President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

In 2003 the party re-changed its name to the Progressive Party. PP has also supported the Workers' Party-led government since 2003.

At the parliamentary elections, held in October 2006, the party won 42 of the 513 seats in the chamber of deputies, and it has 1 of the 81 seats in the Senate. At the 2010 elections, PP won 41 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and made gains in the Senate for a total of 5 seats. It lost an extremely close gubernatorial runoff in Roraima to the PSDB, and won no state governorships.

Its most well-known politicians are Jair Bolsonaro, current president of Brazil; Paulo Maluf, mayor and governor of São Paulo for several terms; Esperidião Amin, former governor of Santa Catarina and senator; and Francisco Dornelles, former minister of Labour and senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro.

The party has from its very beginning shown a tendency for regional division, with the section from Rio Grande do Sul state often threatening with secession, in part due to what is viewed by them as condescendence of the party's national direction towards members involved in corruption scandals, including Paulo Maluf (who has recently been discharged from his post as de facto leader of PP). The national orientation of the party has been one of close alliance with Lula's Workers' Party government (except on issues sensitive to the right wing core of PP, such as taxes), while the section of Rio Grande do Sul once more show a defiant stance in aligning itself more often with the opposition.

The Progressive Party supported the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.

This party was most affected by the Petrobras corruption scandal.[7]

References

1. (Portuguese)"Eleitores filiados". inter04. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
2. "Partido Progressista afirma que quer atrair eleitor conservador". O Estado de S. Paulo.
3. Dirk Berg-Schlosser; Norbert Kersting (28 June 2003). Poverty and Democracy: Self-Help and Political Participation in Third World Cities. Zed Books. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-84277-205-8.
4. "Programa Partidário". Progressistas.
5. Hartman, Hattie (2017). Brazil: Restructuring the Urban. John Wiley & Sons. p. 79.
6. Vasconcellos, Fábio (29 March 2016). "Maioria dos partidos se posiciona como de centro. Veja quem sobra no campo da Direita e da Esquerda" [Majority of the parties identify themselves as centrists. Check which ones identify as left-wing and right-wing] (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
7. "O Globo - A lista de investigados da Lava-Jato no STF". infograficos.oglobo.globo.com.

Preceded by 10 - REPUBLICANOS	Numbers of Brazilian Official Political Parties 11 - PP	Succeeded by 12 - DLP (PDT)