Liberal Party (Brazil, 1985)

Not to be confused with Liberal Party (2006–present) or Liberal Party (1831–1889).

The Liberal Party (Partido Liberal, PL) was a conservative political party of Brazil, active from 1985 to 2006. The Pentecostal Universal Church of the Kingdom of God heavily influenced the party after 1999. In the 2002 election, José Alencar of the PL was elected vice president as the running mate of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.^[2] At the legislative elections on 6 October 2002, the party won 26 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and three out of 81 seats in the Senate of Brazil and supported Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government. Some of its members were investigated following corruption allegations and suspected involvement in the so-called "Mensalão scandal". The Universal Church-led faction then left the PL to create a new party named Brazilian Republican Party (PRB) in 2005.

Liberal Party Partido Liberal
President	Valdemar Costa Neto
Founder	Álvaro Valle
Founded	June 25, 1985 (1985-06-25)
Dissolved	October 2006
Merged into	Party of the Republic
Headquarters	SCN-Qd. 2, Bl. D Sala 601, Edifício Liberty Mall Asa Norte, Brasília
Ideology	Brazilian liberalism[1] Classical liberalism
Political position	Centre-right[2][1][3]
Colours	Scarlett Red   Liberal Blue
TSE Identification Number	22
Politics of Brazil Political parties Elections

At the last elections the party contested, in October 2006, it won 23 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one seat in the Senate for a total of three senate seats. The party did not run candidates in presidential or gubernatorial elections.

On 21 December 2006, the Liberal Party merged with the Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (Partido da Reedificação da Ordem Nacional, PRONA) to create the Party of the Republic (Partido da Republica, PR). In 2019, the Party of the Republic renamed itself to the Liberal Party.

References

1. Mainwaring, Scott (1997), "Multipartism, robust federalism, and presidentialism in Brazil", Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America, Cambridge University Press, p. 67
2. Hunt, Stephen (2011), "Evaluating Prophetic Radicalism: The Nature of Pentecostal Politics in Brazil", Pentecostal Power: Expressions, Impact and Faith of Latin American Pentecostalism, Brill, p. 168
3. Burnell, Peter (2006). Funding Democratization. Transaction Publishers. p. 120.

External links

• Liberal Party official website