Brazil

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Brazil has a multi-party system with numerous political parties sharing the vote, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, so that they must work with each other to form coalition governments. A multi-party system is a type of party system. ... A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a cabinet in parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. ...

The parties

Summary of parliamentary parties

• Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro)
• Brazilian Labour Party (Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro)
• Brazilian Republican Party (Partido Republicano Brasileiro)
• Brazilian Social Democracy Party (Partido da Social-Democracia Brasileira)
• Brazilian Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Brasileiro)
• Christian Labour Party (Partido Trabalhista Cristão)
• Christian Social Party (Partido Social Cristão)
• Communist Party of Brazil (Partido Comunista do Brasil)
• Democratic Labour Party (Partido Democrático Trabalhista)
• Green Party (Partido Verde)
• Liberal Front Party (Partido da Frente Liberal)
• Republic Party (Partido da República) - result of the merger between the Liberal Party (Partido Liberal) and the Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (Partido da Reedificação da Ordem Nacional)
• Progressive Party (Partido Progressista)
• Democratic Mobilization (Mobilização Democrática) - result of the merger between the Socialist People's Party (Partido Popular Socialista), the Humanist Party of Solidarity (Partido Humanista da Solidariedade) and the Party of National Mobilization (Partido da Mobilização Nacional)
• Socialism and Freedom Party (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade)
• Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores)
• Brazilian Renewal Labour Party (Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro)
• Labour Party of Brazil (Partido Trabalhista do Brasil)

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Major parties

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Medium-size parties

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Minor parties

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Non-parliamentary parties

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Non-registered

Waiting for registration in the Electoral Court (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral)

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Recently absorbed

Incorporated by other parties

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Parties recently merged

With the start of the validity of the "Law of Barrier Clause", parties that didn´t won 5% of the national vote to the Chamber of Deputies, with at least 2% in 9 states of the federation, will suffer severe restrictions: they won´t have the right to constitute a parliamentary bloc, have a speaker or receive funds from the "Partidary Fund".

In order to achieve the minimal requirements to break the "barrier clause", some parties started processes of merging.

The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... Christian Democracy is a heterogeneous political ideology and movement. ... In politics, centrism usually refers to the political ideal of promoting moderate policies which land in the middle ground between different political extremes. ... The Socialist Peoples Party (Portuguese: Partido Popular Socialista, PPS) is a political party in Brazil. ... Brazils Party of National Mobilization (Partido da Mobilização Nacional - PMN) is a national-centrist party founded by politicians from the state of Minas Gerais on April 21, 1984, advocating for agrarian reform, termination of debt payments, ending of relations with the IMF and formation of a trade bloc... The Humanist Party of Solidarity (Portuguese: Partido Humanista da Solidariedade) is a Brazilian political party. ... In politics, centrism usually refers to the political ideal of promoting moderate policies which land in the middle ground between different political extremes. ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix Nationalism is an ideology [1] that holds that a nation is the fundamental unit for human social life, and takes precedence over any other social and political principles. ... The Liberal Party (Portuguese: Partido Liberal) is a political party of Brazil. ... The Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (in Portuguese, Partido da Reedificação da Ordem Nacional, or PRONA for short) is a political party in Brazil, as being a nationalist party. ...

Historical parties

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See also

• Brazilian general election, 2006
• Index of political parties to browse parties by name
• List of political parties to browse parties by country
• List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
• Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals
• Liberalism in Brazil