The Liberal Party (''Partido Liberal'', PL) was a conservative

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, merged (2006) in the Party of the Republic. The Pentecostal Universal Church of the Kingdom of God heavily influenced the party after 1999. In the 2002 election, José Alencar of the PL was the running mate of Lula da Silva and became the vice president. At the legislative

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, 6 October 2002, the party won 26 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and three out of 81 seats in the

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and supported Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government. Some of its members were investigated following

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allegations and suspected involvement in the so-called "

Mensalão scandal The Mensalão scandal ( pt, Escândalo do Mensalão, ) was a major parliamentary vote-buying scandal by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration that threatened to bring down his government in 2005. ''Mensalão'' is a neologism, a variant o ...

". The Universal Church has now partially left PL to create a new party named

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(PRB) in 2005. At the last elections, held in October 2006, the Liberal Party won 23 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one seat in the Senate for a total of three senate seats. The party did not run candidates in presidential or gubernatorial elections.

Republic Party

The

Republic Party The Liberal Party ( pt, Partido Liberal, PL) is a conservative and national liberal political party in Brazil. From its foundation in 2006 until 2019, it was called the Party of the Republic ( pt, Partido da República, PR). The party was foun ...

(Partido da Republica, PR) was founded on 21 December 2006 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the

Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order The Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (Portuguese: ''Partido de Reedificação da Ordem Nacional'', PRONA) was a nationalist political party in Brazil. Its electoral code was 56 and its colors were the traditional Brazilian green ...

(Partido da Reedificação da Ordem Nacional, PRONA).

External links

Liberal Party
official website

References

1985 establishments in Brazil Classical liberal parties Defunct political parties in Brazil Liberal parties in Brazil Political parties established in 1985 {{Brazil-party-stub