Partido Social Cristão
| Partido Social Cristão | |
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| Party leader | Everaldo Pereira |
| founding | May 15, 1985 |
| Headquarters | Brasília , Rio de Janeiro |
| Alignment | Religious rights , conservatism , Christian democracy , economic liberalism |
| Colours) | Green and white |
| Number of members | 419,574 (July 2020) |
| Website | www.psc.org.br |
The Partido Social Cristão ( PSC , German Social Christian Party ) is a right-wing religious , conservative and economically liberal party in Brazil. In the German-speaking media she is referred to as both right-wing extremist and right-wing populist .
In the 2014 presidential elections, their top candidate Everaldo Pereira received just 0.75% of the vote.
history
The PSC was founded on May 15, 1985 to distinguish it from the socialist and progressive Partido dos Trabalhadores . However, the entry in the register of parties entitled to vote was not made until March 29, 1990. It bears the number 20 on ballot papers.
On July 17, 2015 Everaldo Pereira, known in Brazil as Pastor Everaldo , took over the chairmanship of the party after he had already served as vice-president of the PSC from July 17, 2003 to July 16, 2015. Pastor Everaldo embodies the political line of the party: anti-communist , against homosexual marriages , against abortion and the relaxation of drug laws.
As of February 2017, the PSC had 421,471 members, which decreased slightly to 419,574 in July 2020.
Electoral successes
Presidential election
In election years without her own candidates, she joined the electoral alliances of other candidates.
| year | Presidential candidate |
Vice presidential candidate |
coalition | be right | % | space |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Fernando Collor de Mello (PRN) | Itamar Franco (PRN) | PRN, PSC, PTR and PST | 35,089,998 | 49.94% | 1. |
| 1994 | Hernani Fortuna | Vítor Jorge Nósseis | without a coalition | 238.197 | 0.38% | 8th. |
| 1998 | Sérgio Bueno | Ronald Abrahão Azaro | without a coalition | 124,659 | 0.18% | 11. |
| 2002 | Anthony Garotinho (PSB) | José Antônio Almeida (PSB) | PSB, PGT, PTC, PSC | 15.180.097 | 17.86% | 3. |
| 2006 | ||||||
| 2010 | Dilma Rousseff (PT) | Michel Temer (PMDB) | PT , PMDB , PR , PSB , PDT , PCdoB , PSC, PRB , PTC and PTN | 55,752,529 | 56.05% | 1. |
| 2014 | Everaldo Pereira | Leonardo Gadelha | without a coalition | 780.513 | 0.75% | 5. |
| 2018 | Álvaro Dias (PODE) | Paulo Rabello de Castro | PODE , PSC, PTC and PRP | 859.574 | 0.80% | 9. |
National Congress elections
In the 55th legislative period, the PSC has 2 senators (out of 81) and 13 deputies (out of 513).
Local elections
In the local elections in Brazil in 2016 , candidates of the party won the office of city prefect (mayor, Portuguese Prefeito Municipal ) (of 5,568 cities across the country) 87 times , as well as 1525 of a total of 56,810 possible city council offices (Portuguese vereador ) for the city councils ( Câmara municipal ).
Known members
Well-known party members are or were pastor Everaldo, Jair Bolsonaro (2016-2018), Marco Feliciano (2010-2018), Wilson Witzel (since 2018) and Cláudio Castro (since 2002).
Controversy
Pastor Everaldo was arrested by federal police on August 28, 2020 in the same investigation that led to the impeachment of Wilson Witzel, Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
Web links
- Party's website (Brazilian Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Tribunal Superior Eleitoral: Estatísticas do eleitorado - Eleitores filiados. Retrieved August 29, 2020 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Other German-language names are social-Christian party or Christian-social party .
- ^ Partidos políticos registrados no TSE. Website of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral
- ↑ Alvaro Dias registra candidatura a presidente no TSE . In: ISTOÉ Independente . August 14, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese, istoe.com.br [accessed August 16, 2018]).
- ↑ Bancada da Eleição de 2014 para Deputado Federal (Titulares). Website of the Câmara dos Deputados. Retrieved March 10, 2017 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Vereadores Eleitos no País em 2016. O Globo (G1), October 3, 2016, accessed on March 10, 2017 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Catia Seabra, Italo Nogueira: Preso, Pastor Everaldo foi padrinho político de Witzel e batizou Bolsonaro. In: com.br. Folha de S.Paulo , August 28, 2020, accessed August 29, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).