Democratas

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Democratas
New logo of the Democratas
Party presidency
Party leader Antônio Carlos Magalhães Neto ,
since March 8, 2018
founding January 24, 1985 (as PFL)
Headquarters Brasília
Alignment Conservatism , economic liberalism
Colours) Green, blue and white
Parliament seats Senators:
6/81

Federal MPs:
29/513
Number of members 1,024,980 (April 2020)
International connections Christian Democratic International , International Democratic Union
Website www.dem.org.br

Democratas ( DEM ) is a conservative and economically liberal party in Brazil . Calling itself simply Democrats, the party emerged in 2007 from the Partido da Frente Liberal ( Party of the Liberal Front ).

History and people

It is in the political spectrum locates right of center and heard, although they formerly known as " liberal called" the Centrist Democrat International (CDI) and the conservative International Democrat Union (IDU) to.

The PFL, for its part, emerged from the wing of the Partido Democrático Social (PDS) - the ruling party during the military dictatorship - which in 1985 refused to follow the official government candidate Paulo Maluf and instead supported the victorious opposition candidate Tancredo Neves from the PMDB . In the following years, the party had its power base mainly in the northeast of the country. From 1995 to 2002 she provided Vice-President Marco Maciel under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso ( PSDB ) .

Party tree

Pedigree of the Democratas and Progressistas from the PFL:

 
 
 Aliança Renovadora Nacional
(ARENA) 1966–1979
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Partido Democrático Social
(PDS) 1980-1993
 
 Partido Democrata Cristão
(PDC) 1985-1993
 
 Partido Social Trabalhista
(PST) 1988-1993
 
 Partido Trabalhista Renovador
(PTR) 1985–1993
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Partido Progressista Reformador
(PPR) 1993–1995
 
 
 
 
 
 Partido Progressista
(PP) 1993-1995
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Frente Liberal
(FL)
 
 
 
 
 
 Partido Progressista Brasileiro
(PPB) 1995-2003
 
 
 
 
 
 
Partido da Frente Liberal
(PFL) 1985-2007
 
 
 
 
 
 Partido Progressista
(PP) 2003–2017
 
 
 
 
 
 
Democratas
(DEM) since 2007
 
 
 
 
 
 Progressistas
(PP) since 2017
 
 
 
 
 
 

Democratas, together with the PSDB and smaller parties, opposed the Brazilian government under President Dilma Rousseff , as it did before President Lula da Silva .

In the elections in Brazil in 2010, the party supported the defeated PSDB candidate, José Serra , in the presidential election and put Indio da Costa as the candidate for the vice-president. In the election to the Senate, the party lost almost half and in the election of the Chamber of Deputies almost a third of its members.

In the parliamentary elections in 2014 she had to accept another defeat: she only got 22 of the 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (21 fewer than before) and 5 of the 81 senators (loss of one seat).

Since 2019 she has been part of the right-wing coalition around Jair Bolsonaro . In the Bolsonaro cabinet, party members are Onyx Lorenzoni as head of cabinet, Luiz Henrique Mandetta as health minister and Tereza Cristina as agriculture minister.

Important personalities in the party are or were the Senators Antonio Carlos Magalhães and Jorge Bornhausen , the MP José Carlos Aleluia and the long-time mayor of Rio de Janeiro , César Maia . The politician Rodrigo Maia has been President of the Chamber of Deputies in the National Congress from July 14, 2016 until the end of the 55th legislative period and after being re-elected for the first term from 2019 to 2020 .

According to a list by the non-governmental organization Movimento de Combate à Corrupção Eleitoral (MCCE), the Democratas were the party with the most corruption cases between 2000 and 2010. During this time, 69 politicians from the party across the country lost their mandate due to corruption allegations.

Results of the parliamentary elections

Chamber of Deputies
Legislative
period 		elected % ±
1986 48th  (1987-1991)
118/487
 23.00   0
1990 49th  (1991-1995)
83/503
 16.18   35
1994 50th  (1995-1999)
89/513
 17.35   6
1998 51st  (1999-2003)
105/513
 20.47   16
2002 52nd  (2003-2007)
84/513
 16.37   21
2006 53rd  (2007-2011)
65/513
 12.67   19
2010 54th  (2011-2015)
43/513
 8.38   18
2014 55th  (2015-2019)
21/513
 4.09   22
2018 56th  (2019-2023)
29/513
 5.65   8
Federal Senate
Legislative
period 		elected % ±
1986 48th  (1987-1991)
13/75
 17.33   0
1990 49th  (1991-1995)
13/81
 16.04   0
1994 50th  (1995-1999)
19/81
 23.46   6
1998 51st  (1999-2003)
16/81
 19.75   3
2002 52nd  (2003-2007)
15/81
 18.52   1
2006 53rd  (2007-2011)
12/81
 14.81   1
2010 54th  (2011-2015)
6/81
 7.41   6
2014 55th  (2015-2019)
4/81
 4.94   2
2018 56th  (2019-2023)
6/81
 7.41   2

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) 		29 1 0 0 0 4th 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 4th 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 2

Membership development

year number
2016, April 1,095,712
2017, April 1,094,968
2018, April 1,094,365
2019, April 1,095,666
2020, April 1,024,980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tribunal Superior Eleitoral : Estatísticas de eleitorado - Filiados. Retrieved May 29, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ↑ John J. Crocitti, Monique M. Vallance: Brazil Today. An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic. Volume 1, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara CA 2012, p. 187. Entry Democrats (Democratas) .
  3. ↑ cf. Tribunal Superior Eleitoral: Eleições 2010: Divulgação de Resultados ( Memento of October 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ cf. DEMOCRATAS - Candidatos Eleições 2010. wayback.archive.org, archived from the original on November 24, 2010 ; Retrieved August 22, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  5. ↑ cf. Brazil 2010 election page
  6. ↑ O ranking since cassação - Desde 2000, 623 políticos foram cassados. THE lidera ranking. May 13, 2010.
  7. ↑ Bancada na Eleição Portal da Câmara dos Deputados . Accessed April 19, 2016.
  8. ^ Senadores Portal do Senado Federal . Accessed April 19, 2016.