Brazilian Democratic Movement
The Brazilian Democratic Movement (Portuguese: Movimento Democrático Brasileiro, MDB) is a Brazilian centrist political party. When they were founded, they were the opposition to the Brazilian military government.
Brazilian Democratic Movement Movimento Democrático Brasileiro | |
|---|---|
| President | Baleia Rossi |
| Secretary-General | Jorge Caruso |
| Founded | 4 December 1965 (original MDB) 30 June 1981 (registered as PMDB) 19 December 2017 (altered its name back to MDB) |
| Dissolved | 20 December 1979 (original MDB) |
| Headquarters | Câmara dos Deputados - Presidência do MDB, Ed. Principal sala T4 - Esplanada dos Ministérios Brasília |
| Ideology | Big tent[1][2] Populism Centrism Third way Factions: Economic liberalism[3] Economic nationalism[4] Social conservatism[3] Historical: Democratization |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right[5][6] Historical: Centre to centre-left[7][8] |
| Regional affiliation | COPPPAL |
| Colours | Main: Green Secondary: Yellow, red and black |
| TSE Identification Number | 15 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 34 / 513 |
| Federal Senate | 12 / 81 |
| Governorships | 7 / 27 |
| State Assemblies | 147 / 1,024 |
| Mayors | 1,022 / 5,570 |
| City Councillors | 7,825 / 56,810 |
| Website | |
| www | |
Social liberals and social democrats broke with the party in 1988 to form the Brazilian Social Democracy Party.
References
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- Lansford, Tom, ed. (2014). "Switzerland". Political Handbook of the World 2014. CQ Press/SAGE. p. 183. ISBN 9781483333281.
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- "Roberto Requião critica projeto de Temer de "neoliberal"". Jornal GGN. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
- Sara Brandellero; Derek Pardue; Georg Wink, eds. (2020). Living (Il)legalities in Brazil: Practices, Narratives and Institutions in a Country on the Edge. Routledge. ISBN 9781000057683.
- "Michel Temer: Brazil ex-president arrested in corruption probe". BBC. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
Mr Temer, from the centre-right MDB party, took over the Brazilian presidency in August 2016 following the impeachment of leftist Dilma Rousseff, a process in which he played a key role.
- Power, Timothy J. (2008). Kingstone, Peter (ed.). Centering Democracy?: Ideological Cleavages and Convergence in the Brazilian Political Class. Democratic Brazil Revisited. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 89.
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