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Brazilian Labour Renewal Party Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro | |
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President | John Herberthe Calumbia Pinto dos Santos [1] |
Honorary President | Pablo Marçal |
Founder | Levy Fidelix |
Founded | 27 November 1994 |
Registered | 28 March 1995 |
Split from | Renovator Labour Party |
Headquarters | Brasília, Federal District São Paulo, São Paulo |
Youth wing | PRTB Jovem |
Women's wing | PRTB Mulher |
Membership | 136,171 [2] |
Ideology | Militarism [3] Social conservatism [3] National conservatism Brazilian nationalism Economic liberalism [4] Familialism [5] Anti-LGBT [6] Jânismo [7] Anti-communism Labourism [8] [9] [10] [6] |
Political position | Right-wing [11] to far-right [12] [13] [14] |
Colours | Green Yellow Blue White |
Slogan | "Homeland and Family in first place!" |
State assemblies | 7 / 1,024 |
Mayors | 6 / 5,568 |
City Councillors | 220 / 56,810 |
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The Brazilian Labour Renewal Party (Portuguese : Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro, PRTB) is a conservative Brazilian political party. It was founded in 1994 and its electoral number is 28. [15] According to the party's official website, the PRTB's main ideology is participatory economics: "to establish an economic system based on participatory decision making as the primary economic mechanism for allocation in society". [16] [ failed verification ]
It comes from members of the extinct Renovator Labour Party, a party that functioned between 1985 and 1993, which had merged with the Social Labour Party, originating the Progressive Party. This group, led by Levy Fidelix, had already tried to organize the PTRB, which only ran in the 1994 elections.
During the 1998 Brazilian general election, Fernando Collor de Mello decided to run again for the office of President of Brazil for the same party that elected him in 1989: the National Reconstruction Party (PRN), now the Christian Labour Party (PTC). The PRTB, together with the PRN, formed the Renova Brasil (Renew Brazil) coalition, in support of the former President of the Republic. The Superior Electoral Court (TSE), however, prevented his candidacy from materializing, due to the eight-year period in which he could not be elected to any elective term. [17]
It was registered on the Superior Electoral Court on 18 February 1997 and Levy Fidelix was elected as party president. [18]
In 2006, the party gained electoral importance because of the election of ex-President Fernando Collor de Mello, impeached in 1992, [19] who made his comeback in national politics as a Senator. However, in 2007 De Mello left PRTB and switched to the Brazilian Labour Party. [20]
The party candidated its president Levy Fidelix in the Brazilian presidential election of 2010 and he obtained 57,960 votes (0.06%). [21] In the second round, Fidelix endorsed left-wing candidate Dilma Rousseff. [22]
In the Brazilian general election of 2014, Fidelix was candidate again [23] and presented himself with a conservative speech and, according to him, the only right-wing candidate. [24] In the first round of the general election, Fidelix received 446,878 votes, representing 0.43% of the popular vote. [25] The PRTB's founder ranked seventh out of 11 candidates, however achieved his best performance in an election throughout his career. In the second round, Fidelix supported candidate Aécio Neves. [26]
For the Brazilian general election of 2018, the PRTB formed the coalition "Brazil above everything, God above everyone" (Brasil acima de tudo, Deus acima de todos) together with the Social Liberal Party to support candidate Jair Bolsonaro. [27] In May 2018, his pick for Vice President, Hamilton Mourão, joined the party. [28]
Party founder Levy Fidelix died in 2021 due to COVID-19 complications. [29]
The party has been accused of having links with neo-Nazi and neo-fascist organizations and promoting fake news and conspiracy theories on the internet. [30]
During the 2014 Brazilian general election, the party leader and candidate Levy Fidelix during a debate made a statement that homosexuals “need psychological care” and were better kept “well away from [the rest of] us." He also said that Brazil’s population of 200 million would be reduced by half if homosexuality were encouraged because “the excretory system” does not function as a means of reproduction. [31] Fidelix obtained 0.43% of votes.
Election | Candidate | Running mate | Colligation | First round | Second round | Result | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||
1998 | None | None | None | - | - | - | - | - |
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2010 | Levy Fidelix (PRTB) | Luiz Eduardo Ayres Duarte (PRTB) | None | 57,960 | 0.06 (#7) | - | - | Lost![]() |
2014 | José Alves de Oliveira (PRTB) | None | 446,878 | 0.43 (#7) | - | - | Lost![]() | |
2018 | Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) | Hamilton Mourão (PRTB) | "Brazil above everything, God above everyone" PSL; PRTB | 49,227,010 | 46,03 (#1) | 57,797,121 | 55,13 (#1) | Elected![]() |
2022 | None | None | None | - | - | - | - | - |
Source: Election Resources: Federal Elections in Brazil – Results Lookup |
Election | Chamber of Deputies | Federal Senate | Role in government | ||||||
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Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | ||
1994 | 154,666 [lower-alpha 1] | 0.34% | 0 / 513 | New | — | Extra-parliamentary | |||
1998 | 53,778 | 0.08% | 0 / 513 | ![]() | 67,586 | 0.11% | 0 / 81 | New | Extra-parliamentary |
2002 | 304,092 | 0.35% | 0 / 513 | ![]() | 27,301 | 0.02% | 0 / 81 | ![]() | Extra-parliamentary |
2006 | 171,908 | 0.18% | 0 / 513 | ![]() | 644,111 | 0.76% | 1 / 81 | ![]() | Independent |
2010 | 307,925 | 0.32% | 2 / 513 | ![]() | 74,478 | 0.04% | 0 / 81 | ![]() | Independent |
2014 | 454,190 | 0.74% | 1 / 513 | ![]() | 38,429 | 0.04% | 0 / 81 | ![]() | Independent |
2018 | 684,976 | 0.70% | 0 / 513 | ![]() | 886,267 | 0.52% | 0 / 81 | ![]() | Extra-parliamentary |
2022 | 294,315 | 0.27% | 0 / 513 | ![]() | 758,938 | 0.75% | 0 / 81 | ![]() | Extra-parliamentary |
Name | Birth date | Relevant offices by PRTB | Relevant offices by other parties |
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Janaina Paschoal | 25 June 1974 |
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Havanir Nimtz | 7 September 1953 |
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Name | Birth date | Death date | Relevant offices by PRTB | Relevant offices by other parties |
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Fernando Collor de Mello | 12 August 1949 | living |
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Antônio Hamilton Mourão | 15 August 1953 | living |
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Joaquim Roriz | 4 August 1936 | 27 September 2018 |
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Áureo Ribeiro | 17 February 1979 | living |
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Levy Fidelix | 27 December 1951 | 23 April 2021 |
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