The Workers' Party is a centre-left to left-wing political party in Brazil that is currently the country's ruling party. Some scholars classify its ideology in the 21st century as social democracy,with the party shifting from a broadly socialist ideology in the 1990s. Founded in 1980,PT governed at the federal level in a coalition government with several other parties from 1 January 2003 to 31 August 2016. After the 2002 parliamentary election,PT became the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies and the largest in the Federal Senate for the first time. With the highest approval rating in the history of the country,President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is PT's most prominent member. Dilma Rousseff,also a member of PT,was elected twice but did not finish her second term due to her impeachment in 2016. The party came back to power with Lula's victory in the 2022 presidential election.
Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco was a Brazilian politician who served as the 33rd president of Brazil from 29 December 1992 to 31 December 1994. Previously,he was the 21st vice president of Brazil from 1990 until the resignation of President Fernando Collor de Mello. During his long political career Franco also served as Senator,Mayor,Ambassador and Governor. At the time of his death he was a senator from Minas Gerais,having won the seat in the 2010 election.
The Brazilian Social Democracy Party,also known as the Brazilian Social Democratic Party or the Party of Brazilian Social Democracy,is a political party in Brazil. As the 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.
The Democratic Labour Party is a political party in Brazil.
Progressistas is a centre-right to right-wing 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,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.
JoséSerra Chirico is a Brazilian politician who has served as a Congressman,Senator,Minister of Planning,Minister of Health,Mayor of São Paulo,Governor of São Paulo state,and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil.
The Brazilian Socialist Party is a political party in Brazil. It was founded in 1947,before being abolished by the military regime in 1965 and re-organised in 1989 after the re-democratisation of Brazil. It elected six Governors in 2010,becoming the second largest party in number of state governments,behind only PSDB. In addition to that,it won 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and three seats in the Senate,besides having been a member of the For Brazil to Keep on Changing coalition,which elected Dilma Rousseff as President of Brazil.
Geraldo JoséRodrigues Alckmin Filho is a Brazilian physician and politician who has served as the 26th vice president of Brazil since 1 January 2023. He previously served as the Governor of São Paulo from 2001 to 2006,and then again from 2011 to 2018,the longest term served in that state since the end of the Military dictatorship in Brazil. He was the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) presidential nominee for the 2018 Brazilian presidential election,when he finished in fourth place,as well for the 2006 Brazilian presidential election,when he came in second place,losing in the runoff to then president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Mário Covas Almeida Júnior was a Brazilian politician.
Ciro Ferreira Gomes,known mononymously as Ciro,is a Brazilian politician,lawyer,and academic. Ciro is currently affiliated with and vice-president of the Democratic Labour Party (PDT).
The Democrats was a centre-right political party in Brazil that merged with the Social Liberal Party to found the Brazil Union in 2021. It was founded in 1985 under the name of Liberal Front Party from a dissidence of the defunct Democratic Social Party (PDS),successor to the National Renewal Alliance (ARENA),the official party during the military dictatorship of 1964–1985. It changed to its current name in 2007. The original name reflected the party's support of free market policies,rather than the identification with international liberal parties. Instead,the party affiliated itself to the international federations of Christian-democratic (CDI) and conservative parties (IDU). The Democrats' identification number is 25 and its colors are green,blue,and white.
Aloízio Mercadante Oliva is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the Chief of Staff of Brazil between 2014 and 2015. He was a founder of the Workers' Party in February 1980 and vice-chairman of the party between 1991 and 1999,then state senator from São Paulo between 2003 and 2010. From 2011 to 2012 he was Minister of Science,Technology and Innovation in Brazil,and in 2012 he became Minister of Education,due to Fernando Haddad's departure to run for mayor of São Paulo.
Antônio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhães,also known by his initials ACM,was a Brazilian politician. He served as Governor of Bahia three times and represented Bahia in the Senate of Brazil three times. Magalhães was one of Brazil's most powerful politicians serving as a Minister for Communications,as Leader of the Liberal Front Party (PFL) and as President of the Federal Senate.
General elections were held in Brazil on 6 October 2002,with a second round of the presidential election on 27 October. The elections were held in the midst of an economic crisis that began in the second term of the incumbent president,Fernando Henrique Cardoso of the centre-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). Due to constitutional term limits,Cardoso was ineligible to run for a third consecutive term.
General elections were held in Brazil on 1 October 2006 to elect the president,National Congress and state governors,with a second round of the presidential election on 29 October as no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the first round.
General elections were held in Brazil on October 3,1994,the second to take place under the provisions of the 1988 constitution and the second direct presidential election since 1960.
The Social Democratic Party is a political party in Brazil led by Gilberto Kassab and uniting dissidents from various political parties,especially the Democrats,Brazilian Social Democracy Party and Progressive Party.
General elections were held in Brazil on 7 October 2018 to elect the president,National Congress and state governors. As no candidate in the presidential election received more than 50% of the vote in the first round,a runoff round was held on 28 October.
Jerônimo Rodrigues Souza is a Brazilian indigenous politician,agricultural professor,and bureaucrat who was elected Governor of Bahia in 2022 election. Winning against ACM Neto in an upset,Jerônimo,a professor at State University of Feira de Santana,became the first self declared indigenous governor in the history of Brazil. He previously served as an advisor in technology to Governor Jaques Wagner,as an advisor to the Rousseff government,and as head of multiple ministries in the government of Rui Costa,rising through the ranks of governmental management. He is a member of the Workers' Party.
General elections will be held in Brazil on 4 October 2026 to elect the president,vice president,members of the National Congress,the governors,vice governors,and legislative assemblies of all federative units,and the district council of Fernando de Noronha. If no candidate for president—or for governor in some states—received more than half of the valid votes in the first round,a runoff election for these offices will be held on 31 October.
