Partido Social Democrático (2011)

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Partido Social Democrático
Logo of the PSD
Party leader Alfredo Cotait Neto
Emergence Split from Democratas party
founding March 21, 2011
Place of foundation Salvador da Bahia BrazilBrazilBrazil 
Headquarters São Paulo
Colours) blue, green, yellow
Parliament seats all mandates of the 2016 local elections and the 2018 general elections:
Governors:
2/27

Senators:
9/81

Federal MPs:
37/513

State MPs:
58/1024

City prefects:
538/5568

City Councils:
4638/56810
Number of members 406,413 (April 2020)
Website www.psd.org.br

The Partido Social Democrático (PSD) is a Brazilian party founded on March 21, 2011 in Salvador da Bahia , not to be confused with the PSD in Portugal . It was initially led by the former mayor of São Paulo , Gilberto Kassab , and the vice-governor Guilherme Afif Domingos , and Senator Alfredo Cotait Neto has been president since 2016 . It is a split from the bourgeois-liberal Democratas (DEM) party.

history

The party name already existed earlier, in the 1950s under Brazil's former President Juscelino Kubitschek , and again in the 1980s. As at that time for Kubitschek, the aspect of development should also be decisive for the new party. The founding members are made up not only of dissatisfied party members of the Democratas, but also of members of the Partido Progressista Brasileiro (PP) and the Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB).

In total, the party was represented in nine Brazilian states at the time it was founded. At that time Otto Alencar , Vice-Governor of Bahia (formerly PP), Indio da Costa (formerly PSDB), and from 2011 to 2013 also Senator Kátia Abreu (formerly DEM, from 2013 PMDB) were among the best-known defectors . In the local elections in 2012, Carlos Brito ran as mayoral candidate for the capital Cuiabá of the state of Mato Grosso , but lost, and with a successful result, Cesar Souza Junior as city prefect for Florianópolis in Santa Catarina .

The Partido Social Democrático campaigns for the elimination of social inequalities and wants to dedicate itself to promoting development. In addition, the party will represent both liberal and social aspects and support, for example, the income transfer programs. The party sees itself as the third way between the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) and the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), was "born independently" and wants to work for a "responsible opposition".

Party leader

Surname Term of office Note
Gilberto Kassab March 21, 2011 to January 5, 2015
Guilherme Campos January 5, 2015 to June 8, 2016
Alfredo Cotait Neto June 8, 2016 -

State MPs

Legislative
period 		elected AC AL AT THE AP BA CE DF IT GO MA MG MS MT PA PB PE PI PR RJ RN RO RR RS SC SE SP TO
56th
(2019-2023) 		37 0 1 1 0 5 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 3 0 1 1 4th 4th 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 0

Two MPs do not exercise their office because they have been appointed state secretaries.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tribunal Superior Eleitoral : Estatísticas de eleitorado - Filiados. Retrieved August 18, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Thomas Knirsch, Karina Kriegesmann: Founding and changing parties. About the new Partido Social Democrático (PSD) and the peculiarities of the Brazilian party system. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, January 2012, p. 1. Retrieved on April 2, 2014.
  3. ^ Political Party Catalog Brazil 2012. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, July 2012, p. 11. Accessed on April 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ Thomas Knirsch, Karina Kriegesmann: Founding and changing parties. About the new Partido Social Democrático (PSD) and the peculiarities of the Brazilian party system. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, January 2012, p. 2. Accessed April 2, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b PSD: Guilherme Campos, ex-líder do PSD na Câmara, assume a presidência nacional do partido. January 5, 2015, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  6. ^ Quem são os Deputados. In: leg.br. Portal da Câmara dos Deputados, accessed April 21, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese, query for PSD MPs).