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Progressive Party
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Progressistas (; , PP) is a centre-right political party in Brazil. Founded in 1995 as the Brazilian Progressive Party (), it emerged from parties that were successors to ARENA, the ruling party of the Brazilian military dictatorship. A pragmatist party, and one of the core members of the Centrão bloc, it supported the governments of presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff, Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro. Largely it was the party of the politics of Paulo Maluf, a former governor and mayor of São Paulo. Of all political parties, in corruption investigati
Key facts
- Political party.name
- Progressives
- Political party.native_name
- Progressistas
- Political party.native_name_lang
- pt
- Political party.logo
- Progressistas (Brazil) logo.svg
- Political party.logo_size
- 250px
- Political party.abbreviation
- PP
- Political party.president
- Ciro Nogueira
- Political party.merger
- Progressive PartyReform Progressive Party
- Political party.headquarters
- Senado Federal, Anexo I, 17º andar, Sl. 1.702, Brasília
- Political party.newspaper
- Gestão Progressista
- Political party.think_tank
- Fundação Milton Campos
- Political party.youth_wing
- Jovens Progressistas
- Political party.womens_wing
- Mulheres Progressistas
- Political party.wing1_title
- Black wing
- Political party.wing1
- Afro Progressistas
- Political party.national
- Progressive Union (UPB)
- Political party.membership_year
- 2022
- Political party.membership
- 1,293,592
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Ideology
- Notable members
- Electoral history
- Legislative elections
- References
Progressistas (; , PP) is a centre-right political party in Brazil. Founded in 1995 as the Brazilian Progressive Party (), it emerged from parties that were successors to ARENA, the ruling party of the Brazilian military dictatorship. A pragmatist party, and one of the core members of the Centrão bloc, it supported the governments of presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff, Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro. Largely it was the party of the politics of Paulo Maluf, a former governor and mayor of São Paulo. Of all political parties, in corruption investigation Operation Car Wash, the Progressistas had the most convictions.
The party in recent years had fully embraced the right. In the 2018 Brazilian general election, the party supported the candidacy of Geraldo Alckmin. After the election, although they remained neutral in the second round, the party has almost fully supported the policies of Jair Bolsonaro, supporting his candidacy for president in 2022 and voting with him 93% of the time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Progressive Party” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.