Democrats (Brazil)

Democratas (DEM ) is a bourgeois- liberal party in Brazil. The Democrats simply Calling party went from 2007 the Partido da Frente Liberal forth (Party of the Liberal Front).

It sees itself as a party of the center, and although they provide primarily represents liberal positions, the Christian Democratic International at.

The PFL in turn grew out of the wing of the Partido Democrático Social ( PDS), which did not want to follow the official government candidates Paulo Maluf 1985 and instead the victorious opposition candidate Tancredo Neves from the PMDB supported. In subsequent years, the party had their power base in the north- east of the country. From 1995 to 2002, it released under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the Vice-President Marco Maciel.

Currently provides Democratas together with the PSDB and smaller parties the opposition to the Brazilian government under President Dilma Rousseff, as previously to President Lula da Silva. In the elections in Brazil in 2010 the party supported in the presidential election the defeated candidate of the PSDB, Jose Serra and put it with Indio da Costa, the candidate for vice-president. In the election to the Senate, the party lost almost half, at the election of Deputies almost a third of their MPs. She is now in both chambers fourth strongest party.

Important figures in the party are or were the senators Antonio Carlos Magalhães and Jorge Born Hausen, the deputy José Carlos Aleluia and the longtime mayor of Rio de Janeiro, César Maia.

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