National Labour Party (Brazil, 1945–1965)
Defunct Brazilian political party / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Labour Party (Portuguese: Partido Trabalhista Nacional, PTN) was a Brazilian political party of the Fourth Republic. It came into being in 1945, when the Estado Novo of Getúlio Vargas was liberalised after the end of World War II. Ideologically, the party represented more conservative and traditionalist sections of the labour movement.
National Labour Party Partido Trabalhista Nacional | |
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Leader | Emilio Carlos(1948–1963) |
Founded | 1945 |
Banned | October 27, 1965 |
Ideology | Conservatism Traditionalism Labourism Janismo |
Political position | Centre-right |
Although the PTN never became as influential as the three main parties of the Fourth Republic (the PTB, PSD and UDN), it did serve, from 1954 until its dissolution in 1965, as the political vehicle for one consequential figure, Jânio Quadros, governor of São Paulo (1955–59), and very briefly president of Brazil (January 31 to August 25, 1961). Quadros' premature resignation from the presidency, in a failed gamble to increase his powers, triggered the Legality Campaign (a Campanha da Legalidade), which contributed significantly to the political instability leading to the military coup of 1964.
In the wake of the 1964 coup d'état, along with every other party, the PTN was oulawed on October 27, 1965, by Institutional Act #2. In 1995, 30 years after the PTN's enforced extinction, a new party was created with the same name, claiming historical lineage, and in 2016 this party was renamed to Podemos.