Brazilian Labour Party (current)

The Brazilian Labour Party (Portuguese: Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro, PTB) is a political party in Brazil founded in 1981 by Ivete Vargas, niece of President Getúlio Vargas. It claims the legacy of the historical PTB, although many historians reject this because the early version of PTB was a center-left party with wide support in the working class.[9] It is the seventh largest political party in Brazil with more than a million affiliated as of 2022.[10]

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Brazilian Labour Party Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro
President	Kassyo Santos Ramos (acting)
Honourary President	Roberto Jefferson
Founder	Ivete Vargas
Founded	21 November 1979; 43 years ago (1979-11-21)
Registered	3 November 1981; 41 years ago (1981-11-03)
Merger of	Party of the Nation's Retirees Social Democratic Party
Preceded by	Brazilian Labour Party
Headquarters	SAS, Qd. 1, Bloco M, Ed. Libertas, Loja 101 Brasília, Brazil
Think tank	Ivete Vargas Foundation
Youth wing	Labour Christian Conservative Youth Historical: PTB Youth
Membership (November 2021)	1,075,750[1]
Ideology	Social conservatism Brazilian nationalism Right-wing populism[2] National conservatism Christian right[3] Catholic social teaching[4] Factions: Anarcho-capitalism[5] Brazilian Integralism[6] Economic liberalism Historical: Getulism Labourism[7] Left-wing nationalism[7]
Political position	Right-wing to far-right[2] Historical: Centre-left[8]
Colours	Black   Yellow   Green   Navy blue
Slogan	"God, Family, Homeland and Freedom"
TSE Identification Number	14
Mayors	215 / 5,568
Federal Senate	0 / 81
Chamber of Deputies	1 / 513
State assemblies	30 / 1,024
City councillors	2,474 / 56,810
Website
ptb.org.br
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Despite the name suggesting a left-leaning unionist labour party, the PTB was mostly a centrist party for most of its history, considered part of the Centrão, a bloc of parties without consistent ideological orientation which supports different sides of the political spectrum in order to gain political previleges.[11] As such, they supported the presidency of Fernando Collor de Mello, Itamar Franco, Fernando Henrique Cardoso — all considered center-right — Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the first term of Dilma Rousseff — who were leftist presidents.[12] Since the conservative wave in the 2010s, the party has shown strong support for the government of Jair Bolsonaro,[13] presenting policies from a more right-wing angle, in addition to affiliating federal deputy Daniel Silveira, known for making references to AI-5.[14]