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Progressives Progressistas | |
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| Abbreviation | PP |
| President | Ciro Nogueira |
| Founded | September 1995 (1995-09)[1] |
| Registered | 16 November 1995 (1995-11-16)[2] |
| Merger of | Progressive Party Reform Progressive Party |
| Headquarters | Senado Federal, Anexo I, 17º andar, Sl. 1.702,Brasília |
| Newspaper | Gestão Progressista |
| Think tank | Fundação Milton Campos |
| Youth wing | Jovens Progressistas |
| Women's wing | Mulheres Progressistas |
| Black wing | Afro Progressistas |
| Membership(2022) | 1,293,592[3] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right[7] |
| National affiliation | Progressive Union (UPB) |
| Colors | Sky blue Dark blue Red (secondary) |
| Slogan | Oportunidades para todos ('Opportunities for all') |
| Electoral number | 11 |
| Federal Senate | 6 / 81 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 50 / 513 |
| Governors | 2 / 27 |
| Legislative Assemblies[8] | 87 / 1,024 |
| Mayors[9] | 701 / 5,568 |
| Municipal Chambers[10] | 6,346 / 58,043 |
| Website | |
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Progressistas (Portuguese pronunciation:[pɾo.ɡɾeˈsis.tɐs];lit. 'Progressives',PP) is acentre-right[5]political party inBrazil. Founded in 1995 as theBrazilian Progressive Party (Portuguese:Partido Progressista Brasileiro), it emerged from parties that were successors toARENA, the ruling party of theBrazilian military dictatorship.[11] Apragmatist party,[12] and one of the core members of theCentrão bloc,[13] it supported the governments of presidentsFernando Henrique Cardoso, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,Dilma Rousseff,Michel Temer andJair Bolsonaro. Largely it was the party of the politics ofPaulo Maluf, a former governor and mayor ofSão Paulo. Of all political parties, in corruption investigationOperation Car Wash, the Progressistas had the most convictions.[14]
The party in recent years had fully embraced the right. In the2018 Brazilian general election, the party supported thecandidacy ofGeraldo Alckmin. After the election, although they remained neutral in the second round, the party has almost fully supported the policies ofJair Bolsonaro, supporting hiscandidacy for president in 2022 and voting with him 93% of the time.[15]
In 2025, the party formed theProgressive Union alliance withBrazil Union.
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Founded in 1995, asBrazilian Progressive Party (PPB), by the union of:
The party entered in coalition with theBrazilian Social Democracy Party and theLiberal Front Party, supporting PresidentFernando Henrique Cardoso in the1998 Brazilian general election.
In the2002 general election, the party informally supported the candidacy ofCiro Gomes in the first round and formally supportedJosé Serra in the second round.
In 2003, the party re-changed its name to theProgressive Party. PP has also supported the Workers' Party-led government from 2003 to 2015.
At the parliamentary elections, held in October 2006, the party won 42 of the 513 seats in the chamber of deputies, and it has one of the 81 seats in the Senate. At the 2010 elections, PP won 41 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and made gains in the Senate for a total of five seats. It lost an extremely close gubernatorial runoff inRoraima to the PSDB, and won no state governorships.
In the2010 elections, alliances between moderate and left-leaning parties took place in several places, such as inBahia, where the PP was part of thePT candidate's coalition, having even nominated its vice governor. About this type of coalition, the former mayor of São Paulo and former PT memberLuísa Erundina declared, still in May 2010, that "It is sad, agonizing to see Maluf's PP withPCdoB. It's all the same."[16]
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Its most well-known politicians arePaulo Maluf, mayor and governor of São Paulo for several terms,Esperidião Amin, former governor ofSanta Catarina and senator, andFrancisco Dornelles, former minister of Labour and senator forthe state of Rio de Janeiro.
The party has from its very beginning shown a tendency for regional division, with the section fromRio Grande do Sul state often threatening with secession, in part due to what is viewed by them as condescendence of the party's national direction towards members involved in corruption scandals, including Paulo Maluf (who has recently been discharged from his post asde facto leader of PP). The national orientation of the party has been one of close alliance with Lula's Workers' Party government (except on issues sensitive to the right wing core of PP, such as taxes)[citation needed], while the section of Rio Grande do Sul once more show a defiant stance in aligning itself more often with the opposition.
The Progressive Party supported theimpeachment of Dilma Rousseff, splitting its alliance with the Worker's Party.
This party was most affected by thePetrobras corruption scandal, damaging its national popularity.[17]
The party supported thecandidacy of Geraldo Alckmin in2018, but did not endorse a candidate in the second round.
After the election, the party joined a coalition with theRepublicanos and the Liberal Party to support Jair Bolsonaro in government.
The party has traditionally been, like many right-wing parties in Brazil, one ofpragmatism and moderation, being considered acatch-all party—making alliances with both left-wing and right-wing parties, depeding on what's more convinient.[18][12][19] The party's main positions in Congress have been that of business interests supporting lowertaxation, highlighing those proposals in accordance with other economic growth principles of the left. When allied with the governments of Lula and Dilma, the party supported theBolsa Familia program in confluence withtax cuts for economic growth.[11]
In more recent years, however, the party has become more stridentlynational conservative, representing the lessreligious and lesspopulist conservatism that existed in Brazil before the election of Bolsonaro. The party supported greatereconomic nationalism than some of its coalition partners and is generally less in support of the military than theLiberal Party. However, in general, the party supportsBolsonarismo, and many of hiscabinet members are members or have joined the party.[citation needed]
| Election | Chamber of Deputies | Federal Senate | Role in government | ||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | ||
| 1998 | 7,558,601 | 11.35% | 60 / 513 | New | 9,246,089 | 14.95% | 3 / 81 | New | Coalition |
| 2002 | 6,828,375 | 7.81% | 48 / 513 |  12 | 6,903,581 | 4.49% | 1 / 81 | 2 | Coalition |
| 2006 | 6,662,309 | 7.15% | 42 / 513 | 6 | 4,228,431 | 5.01% | 1 / 81 |  0 | Coalition |
| 2010 | 6,330,062 | 6.55% | 41 / 513 | 1 | 9,170,015 | 5.38% | 5 / 81 |  4 | Independent |
| 2014 | 6,429,791 | 6.61% | 38 / 513 | 3 | 1,931,738 | 2.16% | 5 / 81 | 0 | Coalition |
| 2018 | 5,480,067 | 5.57% | 37 / 513 | 1 | 7,529,901 | 4.39% | 6 / 81 | 1 | Coalition |
| 2022 | 8,704,341 | 7.90% | 47 / 513 | 10 | 7,592,391 | 7.47% | 7 / 81 | 2 | Opposition (2022–2023) |
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| Sources:Election Resources,Dados Eleitorais do Brasil (1982–2006) | |||||||||
(vii) Ideology (party): Despite that some international political science approaches consider party ideology a 'démodé' variable, Brazilian political scientists still vastly use it. Considering the objectives of our study, we classified the parties according to the literature concepts (ZUCCO JR., 2009), under which codes range from left (1) to right (5). Left: PSOL, PSTU, PCO, PCB. Center-left: PT, PCdoB, PDT. Center: PMDB, PSDB, PSB, PPS, PV. Center-right: PSD, PP, PR, PRB, PROS,PSC, PTB, PHS, SD. Right: DEM, PMN, PRP, PRTB, PSDC, PSL, PTdoB, PTC, PTN.
| Preceded by | Numbers of Brazilian Official Political Parties 11 - PP | Succeeded by |
