Democratas
Democratas | |
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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 |
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Partido Democrático Social (PDS) 1980-1993 |
Partido Democrata Cristão (PDC) 1985-1993 |
Partido Social Trabalhista (PST) 1988-1993 |
Partido Trabalhista Renovador (PTR) 1985–1993 |
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Partido Progressista Reformador (PPR) 1993–1995 |
Partido Progressista (PP) 1993-1995 |
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Frente Liberal (FL) |
Partido Progressista Brasileiro (PPB) 1995-2003 |
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Partido da Frente Liberal (PFL) 1985-2007 |
Partido Progressista (PP) 2003–2017 |
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Democratas (DEM) since 2007 |
Progressistas (PP) since 2017 |
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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
Legislative period |
elected | % | ± |
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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 |
Legislative period |
elected | % | ± |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
- ↑ a b Tribunal Superior Eleitoral : Estatísticas de eleitorado - Filiados. Retrieved May 29, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ 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) .
- ↑ cf. Tribunal Superior Eleitoral: Eleições 2010: Divulgação de Resultados ( Memento of October 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ cf. DEMOCRATAS - Candidatos Eleições 2010. wayback.archive.org, archived from the original on November 24, 2010 ; Retrieved August 22, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ cf. Brazil 2010 election page
- ↑ O ranking since cassação - Desde 2000, 623 políticos foram cassados. THE lidera ranking. May 13, 2010.
- ↑ Bancada na Eleição Portal da Câmara dos Deputados . Accessed April 19, 2016.
- ^ Senadores Portal do Senado Federal . Accessed April 19, 2016.