Alliance for Brazil Aliança pelo Brasil | |
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| Abbreviation | APB |
| President | Jair Bolsonaro |
| Vice President | Flávio Bolsonaro |
| General Secretary | Admar Gonzaga |
| Treasurer | Karina Kufa[1] |
| Founded | 12 November 2019 (2019-11-12) |
| Dissolved | 30 April 2022 (2022-04-30) |
| Split from | Social Liberal Party |
| Merged into | Liberal Party |
| Headquarters | Brasília,DF,Brazil |
| Ideology | Bolsonarism Anti-communism[2] Anti-globalism[2] Brazilian nationalism[3][4] National conservatism[3] Religious conservatism[3] Right-wing populism[5] Social conservatism[6] |
| Political position | Far-right[7][8][4] |
| TSE Identification Number | 38[9] |
| Website | |
| www.aliancapelobrasil.org/ | |
Alliance for Brazil (Portuguese:Aliança pelo Brasil,ALIANÇA) was a Brazilianfar-rightpolitical group that aimed to become apolitical party. Withnational-conservative roots, it was announced byPresident of BrazilJair Bolsonaro on 12 November 2019 after stating his departure from theSocial Liberal Party (PSL).[10][11][12] The organization disbanded in April 2022 for lack of support and after Bolsonaro joined another party.[13]
After a meeting inPalácio do Planalto with PSL lawmakers, Bolsonaro notified them of his resignation from the party and discussed ways to create a new one but still did not formalize his de-affiliation from PSL at that time.[10][9] After the meeting, Bolsonaro published a message in his social media, stating that "today [12 November] I announced my resignation from PSL and beginning of creation of a new party: Alliance for Brazil", thanking "everyone who collaborated with me in PSL and who were partners in the 2018 elections".[12] In the weeks before the announcement of the party creation, Bolsonaro had many misunderstandings with PSL presidentLuciano Bivar,[12] which triggered an internal crisis.[14] In October 2019, Bolsonaro stated to a supporter to "forget" the party, saying that Bivar was "doomed".[15]
According to Bolsonaro, the Alliance for Brazil is a "conservative party, that respects all religions, backsfamily values, supports the right to self-defense, the right to possess a firearm, free-trade with the whole world, without any ideological agenda."[9] The Brazilian media has labeled Bolsonaro's new party as afar-right andright-wing populist movement.[5] Although the party did not officially contest the2020 Brazilian municipal elections,[16] theBrazilian Labour Renewal Party (PRTB),Republicanos,Patriota, and theLiberal Party (PL) expressed openness to having ALIANÇA candidates on their electoral slates.[17]
A year after the project was launched, however, Bolsonaro admitted several times in late 2020 and early 2021 about the failure to collect the necessary signatures for the creation of Alliance for Brazil, as he only managed 13% of the necessary signatures,[18] eventually joining theLiberal Party to compete in the2022 Brazilian general election instead.[19]
Former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro was a member of the Alliance for Brazil, a far-right nationalist political group that aimed to become a political party, until 2022, when the party was disbanded.
