The Christian Democratic Party (, PDC) was a political party in

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founded in 1945. The PDC, a small party supporting traditional Christian values, never achieved electoral success and was banned by the military government in 1965. The party was re-created following the fall of the military in 1985, and subsequently merged with other parties, including the

Democratic Social Party The Democratic Social Party (, PDS) was a conservative Brazilian political party. It was established in 1979 as a continuation of the National Renewal Alliance (ARENA), the political wing of the military during the 1965–79 military dictators ...

, to form the right-wing Brazilian Progressive Party (PPB) in 1993. The former president of Brazil

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was a member of the party from 1988 to the merging with

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