Brazilian Social Democracy Party Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira | |
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President | Marconi Perillo[1] |
General Secretary | Paulo Abi-Ackel |
Vice President | Paula Mascarenhas[1] Duarte Nogueira |
Treasurer | Reinaldo Azambuja[1] |
Honorary President | Fernando Henrique Cardoso |
Founded | 25 June 1988 |
Legalized | 24 August 1989 |
Split from | Brazilian Democratic Movement Party |
Headquarters | SGAS Q.607, Ed. Metrópolis, Mód. B Cobertura 2 - Asa Sul Brasília, Brazil |
Think tank | Instituto Teotônio Vilela |
Youth wing | Juventude PSDB |
Women's wing | PSDB Mulher |
Black wing | TucanAFRO |
LGBT wing | Diversidade Tucana |
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National affiliation | Always Forward |
International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International |
Regional affiliation | Christian Democrat Organization of America (observer) |
Colours | Blue Yellow |
TSE Identification Number | 45 |
Chamber of Deputies | 14 / 513 |
Federal Senate | 1 / 81 |
Governorships | 3 / 27 |
State Assemblies | 48 / 1,024 |
Mayors | 276 / 5,569 |
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The Brazilian Social Democracy Party (Portuguese: Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira, PSDB), also known as the Brazilian Social Democratic Party or the Party of Brazilian Social Democracy,[18] is a centre-right political party in Brazil. As the formerly third largest party in the National Congress, the PSDB was the main opposition party against the Workers' Party (PT) administrations of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff from 2003 to 2016.
Born together as part of the social democratic opposition to the military dictatorship from the late 1970s through the 1980s, and later shifting toward neoliberalism and liberal conservatism in the 1990s, the PSDB and the PT have since the mid-1990s been the bitterest of rivals in current Brazilian politics—both parties prohibit any kind of coalition or official cooperation with each other at any government levels. The PSDB's mascot is a blue and yellow colored toucan, with party members being called tucanos for this reason. Famous tucanos include Mário Covas, Geraldo Alckmin (now a member of the PSB), Tasso Jereissati, Aécio Neves, former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Franco Montoro, Aloysio Nunes, Yeda Crusius, João Doria, and José Serra.
Her main rival, from the nominally social democratic and strongly neoliberal PSDB (Party of Brazilian Social Democracy, Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira), won in the richer states and among higher income voters and those with more years of formal education.
Socialist and social democratic parties, as well as movements and parties known as "populist" and nationalist, were recycled, also in parallel fashion to the European phenomenon, towards neoliberal policies. Peronism, the Mexican PRI, the Chilean Socialist Party, Brazil's PSDB, Democratic Action in Venezuela and the MIR in Bolivia are clear examples of that process. With this they helped to even further isolate the CPs and other more radical forces onthe left, abandoned their traditional policies of government control of the distribution of income, and became responsible for the spread of neoliberalism over the continent as a whole, abandoning the already debilitated field of the left.
The expansion of PB in Brazil begins from the experience of Porto Alegre—even though there were similar practices seen in other citics—and increases progressively in the following ycars with PB being implemented not only by the PT administration and other left-wing parties but by other parties such as Partido da Frente Liberal (Liberal Front Party, PFL, a conservative party), Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, PMDB, a centre party) and the Partido da Social Democracia Brastleira (Party of the Brazilian Social Democracy, PSDB, a centre-right party).
The pre-eminent conservative party, the PFL, and the pre-eminent centre-right party, the PSDB, worked together during the late 1980s and the 1990s.
In the 2014 elections the opposition centre-right party PSDB won the expatriate vote across all continents (TSE 2014).
She will be joined in the run-off by Aecio Neves of the centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), who got 34% of the vote.
The late mayor belonged to Brazil's historic centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), of which former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso was also a member
The irony is that PT and PSDB are both recognisable centre-left parties whose leaders have far more in common with one another than with the other political parties that they have relied upon to form governing coalitions.
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