Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006)
Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006)
The Liberal Party (Portuguese: Partido Liberal, PL) is a far-right political party in Brazil. From its foundation in 2006 until 2019, it was called the Party of the Republic (Portuguese: Partido da República, PR).
Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006)
The party was founded in 2006 as a merger of the 1985 Liberal Party) and the Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (PRONA), as a big tent, centre-right party, and was considered part of the Centrão, a bloc of parties without consistent ideological orientation that support different sides of the political spectrum in order to gain political privileges. As such, it supported the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff— members of the center-left Workers' Party)—and Michel Temer.
History
The Party of the Republic was founded on 26 October 2006, by the merger of the old Liberal Party) — which initially started as a classical liberal party, but slowly shifted towards social conservatism after it became influenced by evangelicals — and the Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (Partido da Reedificação da Ordem Nacional, PRONA) — a far-right nationalist party. The merger was performed in order to surpass the electoral threshold of 5%, but also as a rebranding as the Liberal Party was heavily implicated in the Mensalão scandal.
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