SUPPORT THE WORK

GetWiki

Brazilian Social Democracy Party

ARTICLE SUBJECTS
aesthetics  →
being  →
complexity  →
database  →
enterprise  →
ethics  →
fiction  →
history  →
internet  →
knowledge  →
language  →
licensing  →
linux  →
logic  →
method  →
news  →
perception  →
philosophy  →
policy  →
purpose  →
religion  →
science  →
sociology  →
software  →
truth  →
unix  →
wiki  →
ARTICLE TYPES
essay  →
feed  →
help  →
system  →
wiki  →
ARTICLE ORIGINS
critical  →
discussion  →
forked  →
imported  →
original  →
Brazilian Social Democracy Party
[ temporary import ]
please note:
- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
- it has been imported raw for GetWiki
{{Short description|Political party in Brazil}}{{redirect|PSDB|the romanization method of Taiwanese Hokkien|Phofsit Daibuun}}{{distinguish|Social Democratic Party (Brazil, 2011)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}







factoids
Marconi PerilloTEIXEIRA TITLE=PSDB ESCOLHE MARCONI PERILLO COMO NOVO PRESIDENTE DO PARTIDO ACCESS-DATE=2023-11-30, CNN Brasil, | general_secretary= Paulo Abi-Ackel| leader1_title = Vice President| leader1_name = Paula MascarenhasDuarte Nogueira| leader2_title = Treasurer| leader2_name = Reinaldo AzambujaHonorary President}}| leader3_name = Fernando Henrique CardosoBrazilian Democratic Movement>Brazilian Democratic Movement Party| headquarters = SGAS Q.607, Ed. Metrópolis, Mód. B Cobertura 2 - Asa SulBrasília, Brazil“Estatísticas do eleitorado – Eleitores filiados” {{Webarchive>url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509233212www.tse.jus.br/eleitor/estatisticas-de-eleitorado/filiados |date=9 May 2019 }}.LiberalismEconomic liberalism2008 TITLE=DEMOCRATIC BRAZIL REVISITED PAGE=111, HTTPS://WWW.EM.COM.BR/APP/NOTICIA/POLITICA/2019/05/04/INTERNA_POLITICA,1051154/O-NOVO-PSDB-ASSUME-SUA-BANDEIRA-LIBERAL-DIZ-PUPILO-DE-DORIA.SHTML>TITLE=’O NOVO PSDB ASSUME SUA BANDEIRA LIBERAL’, DIZ PUPILO DE DóRIA - POLITICA - ESTADO DE MINASLAST=MINASWEBSITE=ESTADO DE MINASFactions:Social liberalismLEONE DATE=2013-11-18 URL=HTTPS://WWW.PSDB.ORG.BR/DF/ARTIGO-POR-UMA-SOCIAL-DEMOCRACIA-CONTEMPORANEA/ WEBSITE=PARTIDO DA SOCIAL DEMOCRACIA BRASILEIRA, HTTPS://NUSO.ORG/ARTICULO/SOCIAL-LIBERALISMO-LA-BRUJULA-ROTA-DE-FERNANDO-HENRIQUE-CARDOSO/>TITLE=SOCIAL LIBERALISMO: LA BRúJULA ROTA DE FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO | NUEVA SOCIEDADSocial democracyTUCANO é HOSTILIZADO DEPOIS DE CRITICAR RADICAIS EM ATO - POLíTICAACCESS-DATE=2021-09-24LANGUAGE=PT-BR, 2014-11-09>TITLE=AéCIO NEVES: ‘PARA A DIREITA NãO ADIANTA ME EMPURRAR QUE EU NãO VOU’ACCESS-DATE=2021-09-24LANGUAGE=PT-BR, ‘SOU DE ESQUERDA, MAS NINGUéM ACREDITA’, DIZ FHC - 09/04/2014 - PODER>URL=HTTP://WWW1.FOLHA.UOL.COM.BR/PODER/2014/04/1438019-SOU-DE-ESQUERDA-MAS-NINGUEM-ACREDITA-DIZ-FHC.SHTMLWEBSITE=FOLHA DE S.PAULO, Christian democracy“Programa” (PDF).Progressivism“Leia a carta que Bruno Covas escreveu dois dias antes de morrer”.Liberal conservatism“Direita ou esquerda? Análise de votações indica posição de partidos brasileiros no espectro ideológico”. BBC News Brasil.CentrismREUTERSTITLE=MILLIONAIRE DORIA OF CENTRIST PSDB PARTY WINS MAYOR’S RACE IN SAO PAULOTITLE=PARTY INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION IN DEMOCRATIC BRAZILPUBLISHER=CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2018, }}Historical, now minority:{{Nowrap|Centre to centre-left{{bulleted listNEWSPAPER=REUTERSLAST1=WINTER, Brian, WORK=BBC NEWS, 31 October 2010, PUBLISHER=VEJA, URL=HTTPS://WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM/COMMENTISFREE/2009/FEB/04/BRAZIL-PRESIDENTIAL-CAMPAIGNTHE GUARDIAN>DATE=4 FEBRUARY 2009, }} {{refn WEBSITE=FOLHA.UOL.COM.BRDATE=18 MAY 2011, .PSDB: DE PROGRESSISTA A CONSERVADOR>URL=HTTP://JB.COM.BR/MARCUS-IANONI/NOTICIAS/2015/07/28/PSDB-DE-PROGRESSISTA-A-CONSERVADOR/JORNAL DO BRASIL>LANGUAGE=PTACCESS-DATE=26 FEBRUARY 2020ARCHIVE-DATE=27 AUGUST 2017, dead, .{{bulleted listTITLE=EXCLUSIVE: BRAZIL OPPOSITION LEADER WILL SEEK ECONOMIC REFORMS, 1 November 2010, TITLE=HAS BRAZIL VOTED FOR CONTINUITY?, 31 October 2010, WORK=THE GUARDIANLAST=FOLEYDATE=4 FEBRUARY 2009, WORK=THE GUARDIANLAST=PHILIPSDATE=5 MARCH 2010, }}Brazil: Solid Outlook Despite Elections” {{Webarchivelatinbusinesschronicle.com/app/article.aspx?id=3979 >date=2010-11-28 }}.“Freedom in the World 2010” {{Webarchivewww.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2010&country=7788 >date=2011-12-23 }}.}}}}| think_tank = Instituto Teotônio Vilela| youth_wing = Juventude PSDB| womens_wing = PSDB Mulher| wing1_title = Black wing| wing1 = TucanAFRO| wing2_title = LGBT wing| wing2 = Diversidade TucanaAlways Forward (Brazil)>Always Forward| international = Centrist Democrat International | affiliation1_title = Regional affiliation| affiliation1 = Christian Democrat Organization of America (observer){{party colorborder=darkgray}} Blue {{color boxborder=darkgray}} Yellow| blank1_title = TSE Identification Number| blank1 = 45Chamber of Deputies (Brazil)>Chamber of Deputies13hex={{party color|Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}Federal Senate (Brazil)>Federal Senate3hex={{party color|Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}List of current state governors in Brazil>Governorships3hex={{party color|Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}Legislative Assemblies of Brazilian states>State Assemblies73hex={{party color|Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}Municipalities of Brazil>Mayors519hex={{party color|Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}psdb.org.br}}| country = Brazil}}The Brazilian Social Democracy Party (, PSDB), also known as the Brazilian Social Democratic Party or the Party of Brazilian Social Democracy,{{citation|first1=Scott|last1=Mainwaring|first2=Rachel|last2=Meneguello|first3=Timothy J.|last3=Power|title=Conservative Parties in Brazil|work=Conservative Parties, the Right, and Democracy in Latin America|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=2000|page=178}}. is a political party in Brazil. As the third largest party in the National Congress, the PSDB was the main opposition party against the Workers’ Party (PT) administrations of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff from 2003 to 2016.Born together as part of the social democratic opposition to the military dictatorship from the late 1970s through the 1980s, and later shifting toward neoliberalism and liberal conservatism in the 1990s, the PSDB and the PT have since the mid-1990s been the bitterest of rivals in current Brazilian politics—both parties prohibit any kind of coalition or official cooperation with each other at any government levels. The PSDB’s mascot is a blue and yellow colored toucan, with party members being called tucanos for this reason. Famous tucanos include Mário Covas, Geraldo Alckmin, Tasso Jereissati, Aécio Neves, former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Franco Montoro, Aloysio Nunes, Yeda Crusius, João Doria, and José Serra.

History

File:Eleições PT e PSDB.gif|Presidential elections against Workers’ PartyWorkers’ PartyWith the imminent collapse of the military dictatorship in the early 1980s, a group of left-wing intellectuals were mobilized to create a leftist party. Some of them attempted to work with the labour movement led by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but the group split over ideological grounds. A group of democratic socialists and Trotskyists joined the labour movement and founded the Workers’ Party (PT) while the social democrats remained in the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) and would later create the Brazilian Social Democracy Party. Founded on 25 June 1988 by members of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) linked to the European social democratic movement as an attempt to clarify their ideals, its manifesto preached “democracy as a fundamental value” and “social justice as an aim to be reached”. In its foundation, the party attempted to unite political groups as diverse as social democrats, social liberals, Christian democrats and democratic socialists. The period when the PSDB was created was a very significant moment in the history of Brazilian politics.On 21 April 1985, President-elect Tancredo Neves died, having been the last President not elected directly by the people since the beginning of the military dictatorship. With the formation of new parties, including the PSDB, a National Constitutional Assembly was created and drafted the current democratic constitution in 1988. A high proportion of the first members of the PSDB came from the so-called “historic PMDB”, which was and still is a very large party with many internal conflicts. The founders of the PSDB were dissatisfied with the results of the National Constitutional Assembly and decided to create a party to reflect the need for a national political renewal. As their manifesto states, the new party was created “away from the official benefits, but close to the pulsing of the streets” (taken from a speech by party leader Franco Montoro). Some of the founding members were José Serra, Mário Covas, Ciro Gomes, André Franco Montoro, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Aécio Neves and Geraldo Alckmin.In a country where two constitutional referendums, held in 1963 and in 1993, have shown a very strong preference for a presidential system of government as in most countries of the Americas, the PSDB stands almost alone in the preference given in its manifesto to a parliamentarian system of government. However, after the electors rejected parliamentarism in 1993 and even though the PSDB leader Cardoso was elected President the next year, the party did nothing in subsequent years to further the cause of a parliamentarian system.{{citation needed|reason=This paragraph reads as political opinion; lacks a necessary level of Pseudopedian objectivity, and perhaps veracity, please consider rewriting.|date=April 2016}}The PSDB is one of the largest and most significant political parties in Brazil. Its official program says its policies are social democratic and often associated with the Third Way movement, although the party is also seen as influenced by neoliberalism. The party’s program states that it “reject[s] populism and authoritarianism, as well as both fundamentalist neoliberalism and obsolete national-statism”.WEB, Goldman, Alberto, Declaração Programática do Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (Documento preliminar para discussão interna),americo.usal.es/oir/opal/Documentos/Brasil/Partidos%20Pol%C3%ADticos/PSDB/Declarac_progra2001.pdf, Instituto de Iberoamérica, 15 November 2014, 18 May 2001, Despite its name, the PSDB is not a member of the Socialist International“404 - File or directory not found” {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20061014101051www.socialistinternational.org/maps/english/southa.htm |date=2006-10-14 }}. which draws together social democratic parties worldwide (the Brazilian member of the Socialist International is the Democratic Labour Party, PDT). The party has never had the links to trade union movements that usually characterize social democratic parties; it used to sponsor a central union, the Social-Democracia Sindical (SDS), which has now merged with the Central Autônoma dos Trabalhadores (CAT) and the much more important Central Geral dos Trabalhadores (CGT) into the União Geral dos Trabalhadores (UGT),“União Geral dos Trabalhadores”. but its impact among the unions has always been quite unimpressive compared to even much smaller parties as the PDT or the Communist Party of Brazil, or to the tucanos{{’}}s own influence in society at large.After supporting the candidacy of Geraldo Alckmin in the 2018 presidential election (which was eliminated in the first round with 4.8 per cent of the vote), in the second round, some of the party’s leaders supported the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, to whom most of the party’s traditional electorate had already turned,WEB,www.iris-france.org/119949-bresil-au-secours-lextreme-droite-revient/, Brésil : Au secours l’extrême-droite revient ?, while former São Paulo Governor Alberto Goldman endorsed Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad instead.WEB, Ex-governador Alberto Goldman, do PSDB, declara apoio a Haddad,noticias.uol.com.br/politica/eleicoes/2018/noticias/2018/10/24/goldman-declara-apoio-haddad.htm, 2022-01-16, UOL Eleições 2018, 24 October 2018, pt-BR,

Recent times

(File:Logomarca do Partido Social da Democracia Brasileira.png|thumb|PSDB logo used between 2019 and 2023.)A mere six years after its creation, the PSDB won the presidency. It grew faster than any other party in Brazilian history, with an astonishingly good performance in elections at all levels. President Cardoso enjoyed eight years (1994–2002) of political stability in his tenure as President, with achievement toward these tenets of PSDB’s stated program:
  • Constant defense of democracy
  • Keeping the state at a minimally needed size
  • Administrative decentralization
  • Sustainable economic growth with wealth distribution
  • Political reform to make stronger parties with electoral district representatives more accountable as well as aiming to reduce and eliminate corruption
After suffering defeats in the 2016 and 2018 elections, PSDB went through a rebranding. The font of their logo was changed, the Toucan was removed in favor of a flag of Brazil and the party received a new motto Pelo Brasil (“For Brazil“).WEB, Soares, Olavo, PSDB tem nova logo e “mata” tucano clássico em emblema,www.gazetadopovo.com.br/republica/breves/psdb-mata-tucano-classico-e-anuncia-nova-logo/, 2022-10-17, Gazeta do Povo, pt-BR, However, after heavy losses in the 2022 Brazilian general election, especially with the loss of their longtime hegemony in São Paulo, the party’s principles were revisedWEB,www.psdb.org.br/acompanhe/noticias/psdb-encerra-dialogos-tucanos-com-a-apresentacao-das-novas-diretrizes-e-logomarca, PSDB encerra Diálogos Tucanos com a apresentação das novas diretrizes e logomarca, 24 August 2023, and the Toucan logo was reinstated under Eduardo Leite’s leadership, alongside a new motto, Um só Brasil (“Only one Brazil“).WEB,www.psdb.org.br/acompanhe/noticias/psdb-moderniza-sua-marca, PSDB moderniza sua marca, 24 August 2023,

Controversies

Ranking of corruption

Based on data released by the Superior Electoral Court, the Movement to Combat Electoral Corruption released a ranking on 4 October 2007 regarding the parties that included the largest number of elected officials exposed for corruption since 2000. The PSDB appeared in third place on the list with 58 cases, behind only the Democrats and the PMDB.WEB, Desde 2000, 623 políticos foram cassados. DEM lidera ranking, O Globo,oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2007/10/04/298003467.asp, 19 October 2014, The PSDB was considered Brazil’s “dirtiest” party by the country’s electoral authority. Yet, according to a 2016 academic study, the party has clearly benefited from the complacency of the Brazilian media, which has barely mentioned these cases.WEB,mondediplo.com/2019/09/09corruption, The politics of corruption, September 2019, According to an analysis released on 8 September 2012, of 317 Brazilian politicians who were barred from running in elections by the Clean Record Act, the PSDB is the party that has the largest number of barred candidates with 56 party members.WEB, Talita Abrantes, PSDB tem o maior número de barrados pelo Ficha Limpa, Exame, 8 September 2012,exame.abril.com.br/brasil/noticias/psdb-tem-o-maior-numero-de-barrados-pelo-ficha-limpa, 21 October 2014, A Privataria Tucana“>

A Privataria Tucana

The 2011 book A Privataria Tucana, written by journalist Amaury Ribeiro Jr., a former special reporter of weekly magazine ISTO É and daily newspaper O Globo, highlighted documents that show alleged irregularities in privatizations that occurred during the administration of the former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. It contains about 140 pages of photocopied documents in support of the claim that President Cardoso’s Minister of Planning and later Minister of Health José Serra received kickbacks from businessmen who participated in the Brazilian privatization process, held companies in tax shelters, and moved millions of dollars between 1993 and 2003.WEB,knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/brazilian-political-party-threatens-sue-journalist-over-book, Brazilian political party threatens to sue journalist over book, Natalia Mazotte, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, 2 January 2012, 24 March 2013, 2 February 2012,knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/brazilian-political-party-threatens-sue-journalist-over-book," title="web.archive.org/web/20120202203253knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/brazilian-political-party-threatens-sue-journalist-over-book,">web.archive.org/web/20120202203253knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/brazilian-political-party-threatens-sue-journalist-over-book, dead,

Ideology

Although the PSDB declares itself as a centrist party, some people on the left reject this definition, especially after Fernando Henrique Cardoso embraced Third Way politics as President. The party has been seen as neoliberal by critics from its beginnings.BOOK, A Construção da ideologia neoliberal do PSDB,www.encontro2010.rj.anpuh.org/resources/anais/8/1276606395_ARQUIVO_AconstrucaodaideologianeoliberalnoPSDB_1988-1994_.pdf, 978-85-60979-08-0, 19 October 2014, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, one of the founders of the PSDB, left the party in 2011 for ideological reasons, claiming “that the party had taken a hard turn to the right”.NEWS, Luiz Carlos, Bresser Pereira, Adeus à política partidária,www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/opiniao/fz1805201107.htm, In an article titled “The left-right confusion in the post-Berlin Wall world”, political analyst Angelo Segrillo says that “most analysts defined PSDB as center-left as of its foundation, after all, it was the Brazilian Social Democratic Party”. As he notes, “this story changed after 1994, with the election of PSDB to the presidency. [...] A rhetoric of overcoming classical ideological division [...] was one of the justifications of the grand parliamentary alliance with center and right-wing parties. [...] As such, after the 1994 presidential election, most analysts started defining PSDB as a center party along with PMDB”.JOURNAL, Segrillo, Angelo, 2004, A confusão esquerda-direita no mundo pós-Muro de Berlim, The left-right confusion in the post-Berlin Wall world, Dados, 47, 615–632, 0011-5258, 10.1590/S0011-52582004000300006, pt, A maioria dos analistas classificava o PSDB na centro-esquerda quando de sua criação. [...] A estória torna-se outra após 1994, com a chegada do PSDB à presidência. Uma retórica de superação das divisões ideológicas clássicas [...] foi um dos fundamentos justificativos da grande aliança parlamentar com partidos de centro e direita [...]. Tanto que, após a eleição presidencial de 1994, a maioria dos analistas passou a classificar o PSDB como partido de centro junto com o PMDB, free, . In its 2009 report about Freedom in the World, Freedom House defined the opposition coalition (formed by PSDB, PPS and Democrats) as a “center-right coalition”.JOURNAL, Freedom House, 16 July 2009, Freedom in the World 2009 – Brazil, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR,unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,FREEHOU,,BRA,4a6452cb23,0.html, In early 1994, Fernando Henrique Cardoso [...] forged a three-party, centrist coalition around his Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), 2010-01-17,unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,FREEHOU,,BRA,4a6452cb23,0.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20110724154058unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,FREEHOU,,BRA,4a6452cb23,0.html,">web.archive.org/web/20110724154058unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,FREEHOU,,BRA,4a6452cb23,0.html, 2011-07-24, dead, Freedom House, . However, in the 2010 report by the same organization, PSDB was defined as a “center-left” party.WEB,www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2010&country=7788, Freedom House, Map of Freedom in the World, 14 June 2010, 23 December 2011,www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2010&country=7788," title="web.archive.org/web/20111223054815www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2010&country=7788,">web.archive.org/web/20111223054815www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2010&country=7788, dead, Political scientist Glauco Peres notes that the party’s move toward conservatism came “in stages,” from “the liberal policies and major privatizations of the Cardoso era” to the gradual emergence of a “conservative and religious discourse” in the early 2010s to the failed campaign of the party’s right-wing presidential candidate Aecio Neves in 2014.NEWS,www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/12/26/la-droite-bresilienne-veut-seduire-les-bolsonaristes-moderes_6024103_3210.html, La droite brésilienne veut séduire les bolsonaristes ” modérés ”, Le Monde.fr, 26 December 2019, Workers’ Party campaign leader Marco Aurélio Garcia criticized declarations made by PSDB president Sérgio Guerra that PSDB is “the real left”. He said that “PSDB is not a right wing party, it is the right wing’s party”.“Garcia: ‘PSDB não é partido de direita, é da direita’”.

Political alignment

The PSDB questions the use of what it considers “outdated political labels” such as “left” and “right”. To quote a document drafted by Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s office in 1990: “If left means to be against the existing social order, and right in favor, then social-democracy is without doubt a left current. [...] A social democrat is before anything else someone who has critical sense — who realizes the injustices of society and has no fear to oppose them, even at the risk of being taken as a subversive or a dreamer”.The party did not preach nationalization or privatization in general (“the consensus is that the state must not be too big or too small, but ‘have the size and functions corresponding to the needs of the whole of society’“), yet President Cardoso privatized many large public companies, such as Companhia Vale do Rio Doce and the national telecommunication system. Many political scientists in Brazil believed that the party in its antagonism with the PT made a move to the right in recent years to fill a void in the Brazilian political spectrum and to put a certain distance between itself and the PT’s political views, which also moved more to the right (from the far-left or left to the centre-left) in the 1990s in order to be elected.

Voter base

The main electoral base of the party is the State of São Paulo, where the party triumphed in all but three major elections to executive office. The party also has a stronghold in other regions which reject the PT, like Espirito Santo, and in some southern and mid-western states. Unlike the PT, the party has more success in more local elections in the same areas that often vote for the PT in national elections, like the North and Northeastern regions and Minas Gerais. Many leaders of the party come from these regions, like Tasso Jereisatti, Aécio Neves, Teotonio Vilela Filho, Cassio Cunha Lima, Sergio Guerra and Simão Jatene. However, the party has not succeeded in transforming this into results in presidential elections, partly because of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s charisma and partly because of internal infighting.Most rejection of the party comes from the State of Rio de Janeiro, where the positioning of the party in the Brazilian centre and centre-right often loses to PMDB and another parties with less national representation, like the Brazilian Republican Party, the Democrats, Progressistas and the Social Christian Party. The only victory of the party in Rio occurred in 1994, when the majority of voters in the state supported FHC in the presidential election and the toucans Artur da Tavola and Marcello Alencar were elected to the senate and state governorship, respectively. PT is also strongly rejected in Rio, however less than PSDB.Despite being considered a centre-left party by their own members, media and by the Brazilian right, the PSDB has little or no appeal to the majority of Brazilian left. The majority of support and bases of tucanos comes from right-wing sectors like conservative Christians, professionals, the middle and upper middle class, farmers, landowners and business owners. Reasons for this support derive from the more moderate rhetoric and ideology of the party compared with the PT, the major economic reforms which the party led in the 1990s, and the major influence of the Democrats in the party.This support is not viewed well inside the “old guard” of the party. Many tucanos often publicly express their discomfort with the party. Even Cardoso, the most successful figure in the party’s history, constantly criticizes such PSDB politicians as Colonel Telhada, a former police officer who was elected a deputy in São Paulo with proposals such as reducing the age of defense of infancy, harsher penalties for criminals and appealing to the evangelical churches, of which Telhada is a member; and João Dória Junior, mayor of São Paulo between 2016 and 2018 and governor of the state of São Paulo since 2019. Dória is often accused of populism, demagoguery, opportunism, personalism, self-promotion, market fundamentalism and aggressive exploitation of anti-Workers’ Party sentiment within the populace. These antagonisms persist between the voter base together with the new members who joined the party based on right-wing sentiment of opposition to the Workers’ Party versus the party elite and older members with more left-liberal, progressive, social democratic and pragmatic views, thus an important factor in the often internal rifts between tucanos.In 2017, a group of new, young federal representatives, nicknamed “black heads”, in reference to their youth (contrasting the gray or bald heads of older and progressive members), began to gain prominence in the party. This wing, made up of members in their 30s or younger, has shown strong opposition to support of the party for the government of President Michel Temer and a far more support for economic liberalism than the old party members like José Serra and Aloysio Nunes. Black heads now occupy important positions inside the party and with support of the base and social movements like the Free Brazil Movement have the capacity to push the party more to the right-wing of the Brazilian political spectrum.In the 2018 general election, the party suffered the greatest defeat in its history as Geraldo Alckmin came in fourth in the presidential election with less than 5% of votes and the party fell to 10th position in number of representatives in the Chamber of Deputies, with fewer representatives than the Democrats. The key reasons for this failure were the corruption scandals of Aécio Neves, the party’s support for the government of Michel Temer, the lack of charisma and wrong strategies of Alckmin in the presidential campaign, which chose to attack the right-wing populist candidate Jair Bolsonaro from a progressive viewpoint instead of attacking the traditional rival PT, and a continuing domination of old leftist leaders instead of new and more liberal members with stronger connection with the voter base over the party. They support Bolsonaro and his Social Liberal Party smashed the voter base of the party. The PSDB faced a runoff in three of the four biggest states, namely São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, all of them with more pro-free market and centre-right views than Alckmin. PSDB triumphed in São Paulo with João Doria Junior, Rio Grande do Sul with Eduardo Leite and in the agrarian state of Mato Grosso do Sul with Reinaldo Azambuja, also a centre-right candidate.According to researcher Christophe Ventura, the party’s candidates are often evangelicals, multimillionaires and entrepreneurs. They present themselves as “managers” rather than “politicians”.According to researcher Christophe Ventura, the party’s candidates are often evangelicals, multimillionaires and entrepreneurs. They present themselves as “managers” opposed to “politicians”.

Party leadership

List of party presidents{| class“wikitable” style@text-align: center; ”

! rowspan=“2” | Picture! rowspan=“2” | Name! colspan=“2” | Term! width=“150” | Begin! width=“150” | End
|-
! (File:Criação do PSDB (8429469845).jpg|frameless|149x149px)!! Provisory Committee{{efn|Alternation between Franco Montoro, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Mário Covas, José Richa and Pimenta da Veiga.}}
| 1988 || 1989
! (File:Francomontoro.JPG|frameless|100x100px)!! Franco Montoro
| 1989 || 1991
|-
! (File:Senador_Tasso_Jereissati_(Foto_Oficial).jpg|100x100px) !! Tasso Jereissati
| 1991 || 1994
|-
! (File:Pimenta_da_Veiga,_2014.jpg|100x100px) !! Pimenta da Veiga
| 1994 || 1995
! (File:Arthur_da_Távola.jpg|100x100px) !! Artur da Távola
| 1995 || 1996
! (File:Teotônio Vilela Filho em 2015 (1).jpg|100x100px) !! Teotônio Vilela Filho
| 1996 || 2001
|-
! (File:Foto_oficial_de_José_Aníbal.jpg|100x100px) !! José Aníbal
| 2001|| 2003
|-
! (File:Jose Serra.jpg|100x100px)!! José Serra
| 2003|| 2005
|-
! (File:Eduardo_azeredo.jpg|100x100px)!! Eduardo Azeredo
| January, 2005|| October, 2005
|-
! (File:José Serra no Rio (cropped).jpg|frameless|100x100px)!!José Serra|November, 2005! (File:Senador_Tasso_Jereissati_(Foto_Oficial).jpg|100x100px)!! Tasso Jereissati
| November, 2005 || November 23, 2007
|-
!(File:Sergio_guerra.jpg|100x100px)!Sérgio Guerra| May 18, 2013
|-
! (File:Senador_Aécio_Neves-2.jpg|100x100px)!! Aécio Neves
|May 18, 2013 || December 17, 2017WEB,g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2015/07/aecio-neves-e-reeleito-para-presidir-o-psdb-por-mais-dois-anos.html, Aécio Neves é reeleito para presidir o PSDB por mais dois anos, Laís Alegretti e Fabiano CostaDo, G1, em, Brasília, 5 July 2015, Política, 19 August 2023,
! (File:Geraldo Alckmin em agosto de 2017 (cropped).jpg|frameless|100x100px)!!Geraldo Alckmin|May 31, 2019! (File:Bruno Araújo.jpg|100x100px)!! Bruno Araújo
| May 31, 2019 || January 31, 2023
|-
!(File:EduardoLeite.jpg|frameless|100x100px)!! Eduardo Leite !(File:Marconi Perillo - Governor of Goiás.jpg|frameless|81x81px)!Marconi Perillo|November 30, 2023|Incumbent

Honor Presidents {| class“wikitable” style@text-align: center; ”

! rowspan=“2” | Picture! rowspan=“2” | Name! colspan=“2” | Term! rowspan=“2” | Convention! rowspan=“2” | Notes
|-
! width=“150” | Begin! width=“150” | End
|-
! rowspan=“3“|(File:André Franco Motoro Dec 80 REFON.jpg|45px) !! rowspan=“3“|Franco Montoro
| 1994 || 1995
| rowspan=“3“|
| rowspan=“3“| Died in 1999De Volta ao Começo! blogdoraul.com.br September 2011
|-
| 1996 || 1998
| 1999 || 2001
! rowspan=“9“|(File:Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1999).jpg|45px) !! rowspan=“9“|Fernando Henrique Cardoso
| 2001|| 2003
| rowspan=“9” |
| rowspan=“9” |


|-
| 2003|| 2005
|-
| 2005||2007
|-
| 2007 || 2009
|-
|2009 || 2011
|-
|2011 || 2013
|-
|2013 || 2015
|-
|2015 || 2017
|-
|2017 || Incumbent
|}

Prominent members and former members

President and candidates

Governors and Senators

Mayors and Deputies

Electoral history

Presidential elections{|classwikitable style

!rowspan=2|Year!rowspan=2|Candidate!colspan=2|First round!colspan=2|Second round!rowspan=2|Role!Votes!Vote %!Votes!Vote %1989 Brazilian presidential election>1989|Mário Covas|7,786,939 |11.5% (4th)!!In opposition}}1994 Brazilian general election>1994|Fernando Henrique Cardoso|34,362,726|54.3 (1st)!!In government coalition}}1998 Brazilian general election>1998|Fernando Henrique Cardoso|35,922,692|53.1 (1st)!!In government coalition}}2002 Brazilian general election>2002|José Serra|19,694,843|23.2 (2nd) |33,356,860|38.7 (2nd)In opposition}}2006 Brazilian general election>2006|Geraldo Alckmin|39,968,369|41.6 (2nd)|37,543,178|39.2 (2nd)In opposition}}2010 Brazilian general election>2010|José Serra|33,132,283|32.6 (2nd)|43,711,388|44.0 (2nd)In opposition}}2014 Brazilian general election>2014|Aécio Neves|34,897,211|33.6 (2nd)|51,041,155|48.4 (2nd)In opposition}}2018 Brazilian general election>2018|Geraldo Alckmin|5,096,277|4.8 (4th)!!In government coalition}}{{For|more|2021 PSDB presidential primary}}

Legislative elections{|classwikitable styletext-align:center

!rowspan=“2“|Election !colspan=“4“|Chamber of Deputies!colspan=“4“|Federal Senate!rowspan=“2“|Role in government!Votes!%!Seats!+/–!Votes!%!Seats!+/–!19903,515,8098.68%{{composition bar513Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|NewN/AN/A{{composition bar32Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|NewIndependent}}!19946,350,94113.90%{{composition bar513Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{increase}} 2415,652,18216.34%{{composition bar54Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{increase}} 8Coalition}}!199811,684,90017.54%{{composition bar513Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{increase}} 376,366,68110.30%{{composition bar81Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{increase}} 5Coalition}}!200212,473,74314.26%21,360,29113.90%{{composition bar81Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{decrease}} 5Opposition}}!200612,691,04313.62%{{composition bar513Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{decrease}} 610,547,77812.50%201011,477,38011.88%{{composition bar513Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{decrease}} 1230,903,73618.13%{{composition bar81Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{decrease}} 3Opposition}}!rowspan=“2” |201411,073,63111.39%{{composition bar513Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}{{increase}} 123,880,07826.73%{{composition bar81Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}{{decrease}} 1Opposition {{small|(2014-2016)}}}}Coalition {{small|(2016-2018)}}}}!20185,905,5416.01%{{composition bar513Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{decrease}} 2520,310,55811.85%{{composition bar81Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{decrease}} 2Independent}}!20223,309,0613.02%{{composition bar513Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{decrease}} 161,394,5471.37%{{composition bar81Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{decrease}} 4Independent}}{{Notelist}}“>

Municipal elections{|classwikitable|+Mayors

!Year!Votes!% votes!+/–!No. ofoverall seats won!+/–2008 Brazilian municipal elections>2008|14,537,570|N/A|New791hex={{party color|Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|New2012 Brazilian municipal elections>2012|13,950,000|13.57 (2nd)|N/A693hex={{party color|Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{Decrease}} 942016 Brazilian municipal elections>2016|17,633,653|N/A803hex={{party color|Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{Increase}} 1102020 Brazilian municipal elections>2020|10,332,139|N/A520hex={{party color|Brazilian Social Democracy Party}}}}|{{Decrease}} 283

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

{{Brazil political parties}}{{Authority control}}

- content above as imported from Wikipedia
- "Brazilian Social Democracy Party" does not exist on GetWiki (yet)
- time: 8:32am EDT - Wed, May 22 2024
[ this remote article is provided by Wikipedia ]
LATEST EDITS [ see all ]
GETWIKI 21 MAY 2024
GETWIKI 09 JUL 2019
Eastern Philosophy
History of Philosophy
GETWIKI 09 MAY 2016
GETWIKI 18 OCT 2015
M.R.M. Parrott
Biographies
GETWIKI 20 AUG 2014
CONNECT