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Brazilian Labour Renewal Party

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The Brazilian Labour Renewal Party (Portuguese: Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro, PRTB) is a conservative Brazilian political party. It was founded in 1994 and its electoral number is 28.[8] According to the party's official website, the PRTB's main ideology is participatory economics: "to establish an economic system based on participatory decision making as the primary economic mechanism for allocation in society".[9][failed verification]

Brazilian Labour Renewal Party
Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro
PresidentJohn Herberthe Calumbia Pinto dos Santos[1]
Honorary PresidentPablo Marçal
FounderLevy Fidelix
Founded27 November 1994; 29 years ago (1994-11-27)
Registered28 March 1995; 29 years ago (1995-03-28)
Split fromRenovator Labour Party
HeadquartersBrasília, Federal District
São Paulo, São Paulo
Youth wingPRTB Jovem
Women's wingPRTB Mulher
Membership136,171[2]
IdeologyMilitarism[3][additional citation(s) needed]
Social conservatism[3]
Economic liberalism[4]
Familialism[5]
Anti-LGBT[6]
Jânismo[7]
Colours  Green
  Yellow
  Blue
  White
SloganHomeland and Family in first place!
State assemblies
7 / 1,024
Mayors
6 / 5,568
City Councillors
220 / 56,810
Website
prtb.org.br

Overview

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It comes from members of the extinct Renovator Labour Party, a party that functioned between 1985 and 1993, which had merged with the Social Labour Party, originating the Progressive Party. This group, led by Levy Fidelix, had already tried to organize the PTRB, which only ran in the 1994 elections.

During the 1998 Brazilian general election, Fernando Collor de Mello decided to run again for the office of President of Brazil for the same party that elected him in 1989: the National Reconstruction Party (PRN), now the Christian Labour Party (PTC). The PRTB, together with the PRN, formed the Renova Brasil (Renew Brazil) coalition, in support of the former President of the Republic. The Superior Electoral Court (TSE), however, prevented his candidacy from materializing, due to the eight-year period in which he could not be elected to any elective term.[10]

It was registered on the Superior Electoral Court on 18 February 1997 and Levy Fidelix was elected as party president.[11]

In 2006, the party gained electoral importance because of the election of ex-President Fernando Collor de Mello, impeached in 1992,[12] who made his comeback in national politics as a Senator. However, in 2007 De Mello left PRTB and switched to the Brazilian Labour Party.[13]

The party candidated its president Levy Fidelix in the Brazilian presidential election of 2010 and he obtained 57,960 votes (0.06%).[14] In the second round, Fidelix endorsed left-wing candidate Dilma Rousseff.[15]

In the Brazilian general election of 2014, Fidelix was candidate again[16] and presented himself with a conservative speech and, according to him, the only right-wing candidate.[17] In the first round of the general election, Fidelix received 446,878 votes, representing 0.43% of the popular vote.[18] The PRTB's founder ranked seventh out of 11 candidates, however achieved his best performance in an election throughout his career. In the second round, Fidelix supported candidate Aécio Neves.[19]

For the Brazilian general election of 2018, the PRTB formed the coalition "Brazil above everything, God above everyone" (Brasil acima de tudo, Deus acima de todos) together with the Social Liberal Party to support candidate Jair Bolsonaro.[20] In May 2018, his pick for Vice President, Hamilton Mourão, joined the party.[21]

Party founder Levy Fidelix died in 2021 due to COVID-19 complications.[22]

Controversies

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The party has been accused of having links with neo-Nazi and neo-fascist organizations and promoting fake news and conspiracy theories on the internet.[23]

During the 2014 Brazilian general election, the party leader and candidate Levy Fidelix during a debate made a statement that homosexuals “need psychological care” and were better kept “well away from [the rest of] us." He also said that Brazil’s population of 200 million would be reduced by half if homosexuality were encouraged because “the excretory system” does not function as a means of reproduction.[24] Fidelix obtained 0.43% of votes.

Electoral history

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Presidential elections

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Election Candidate Running mate Colligation First round Second round Result
Votes % Votes %
1998 Didn't contest
2002
2006
2010 Levy Fidelix (PRTB) Luiz Eduardo Ayres Duarte (PRTB) None 57,960 0.06 (#7) - - Lost  N
2014 José Alves de Oliveira (PRTB) None 446,878 0.43 (#7) - - Lost  N
2018 Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) Hamilton Mourão (PRTB) "Brazil above everything, God above everyone"
PSL; PRTB 		49,227,010 46,03 (#1) 57,797,121 55,13 (#1) Elected  Y
2022 Didn't contest
Source: Election Resources: Federal Elections in Brazil – Results Lookup

Legislative elections

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Election Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate Role in government
Votes % Seats +/– Votes % Seats +/–
1994 154,666[a] 0.34%
0 / 513
 New — Extra-parliamentary
1998 53,778 0.08%
0 / 513
   0 67,586 0.11%
0 / 81
 New Extra-parliamentary
2002 304,092 0.35%
0 / 513
   0 27,301 0.02%
0 / 81
   0 Extra-parliamentary
2006 171,908 0.18%
0 / 513
   0 644,111 0.76%
1 / 81
   1 Independent
2010 307,925 0.32%
2 / 513
   2 74,478 0.04%
0 / 81
   1 Independent
2014 454,190 0.74%
1 / 513
   1 38,429 0.04%
0 / 81
   0 Independent
2018 684,976 0.70%
0 / 513
   1 886,267 0.52%
0 / 81
   0 Extra-parliamentary
2022 294,315 0.27%
0 / 513
   0 758,938 0.75%
0 / 81
   0 Extra-parliamentary
  1. ^ Votes obtained in coalition with PV, PCB and PSTU.

Notable members

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Current members
Name Birth date Relevant offices by PRTB Relevant offices by other parties
Havanir Nimtz 7 September 1953
Former members
Name Birth date Death date Relevant offices by PRTB Relevant offices by other parties
Fernando Collor de Mello 12 August 1949 living
Antônio Hamilton Mourão 15 August 1953 living
Joaquim Roriz 4 August 1936 27 September 2018
Áureo Ribeiro 17 February 1979 living
Janaina Paschoal 25 June 1974 living
Levy Fidelix 27 December 1951 23 April 2021
  • National President of PRTB (1994—2021)

References

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  1. ^ "Partidos políticos registrados no TSE". Superior Electoral Court (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Eleitores filiados". inter04.tse.jus.br. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Brazil: Bolsonaro puts military general as VP on election ticket". Al Jazeera. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Eleições: Levy Fidelix quer "privatizar tudo que puder" para alavancar São Paulo". IG Último Segundo. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Criação de Centro de Proteção à Criança e ao Adolescente é debatida na ALEMS..." Assembleia Legislativa do Mato Grosso do Sul. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  6. ^ "Histórico". PRTB. 8 January 2013. Archived from the original on 27 July 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  7. ^ "RELEMBRANDO 2014: LEVY FIDELIX RESPONDE SOBRE CASAMENTO GAY – DEBATE RECORD". PRTB. 26 January 2018. Archived from the original on 14 January 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  8. ^ "Partidos políticos registrados no TSE". www.tse.jus.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2014-10-24. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  9. ^ "Histórico - PRTB - Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro". PRTB - Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2013-01-08. Archived from the original on 2016-07-27. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  10. ^ "Collor". Tribunal Superior Eleitoral. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  11. ^ "Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro". www.tse.jus.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  12. ^ "Collor volta ao partido pelo qual se elegeu presidente e sofreu impeachment". Congresso em Foco (in Brazilian Portuguese). 6 June 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  13. ^ "Ex-presidente Collor troca o PRTB pelo PTB". Gazeta do Povo. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  14. ^ "Tribunal Superior Eleitoral". www.tse.jus.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 8 July 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  15. ^ "Levy Fidelix quer discutir com Dilma espaço para PRTB". Exame (in Portuguese). 1 December 2010.
  16. ^ "PRTB oficializa candidatura de Levy Fidelix à Presidência da República". Eleições 2014 em São Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 15 June 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  17. ^ "Levy se assume como candidato da direita e promete defender ditadura - Notícias - Política". Política (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  18. ^ "Apuração de votos e resultado das Eleições 2014 (Fonte: TSE): Presidente e candidatos eleitos - UOL Eleições 2014". UOL Eleições 2014 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  19. ^ "Levy Fidelix anuncia apoio a Aécio Neves no segundo turno". Eleições 2014 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  20. ^ "Jair Bolsonaro hopes to be Brazil's Donald Trump". The Economist. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
  21. ^ "PRTB considera lançar general Mourão a presidente, diz Fidelix". Poder360 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 30 June 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  22. ^ "Levy Fidelix morre aos 69 anos, vítima da Covid-19". Quem (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2022-08-28.
  23. ^ "Grupo alinhado a Mussolini e Fidelix é alvo de investigação no PR". HuffPost Brasil. 10 January 2016. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  24. ^ Watts, Jonathan (29 September 2014). "Brazil presidential candidate airs homophobic rant during TV debate". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
Preceded by Numbers of Brazilian Official Political Parties
28 - BLRP (PRTB) 		Succeeded by
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