Brazilian Labour Renewal Party

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Brazilian Labour Renewal Party Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro
President	Aldiceia Rodrigues
Vice President of Brazil	Hamilton Mourão
Founded	1994
Headquarters	Brasília, Federal District São Paulo, São Paulo
Membership	136,171[1]
Ideology	Militarism[2] Social conservatism[2] National conservatism Brazilian nationalism Economic nationalism Right-wing populism Anti-LGBT[3] Jânismo[4] Anti-communism Labourism[5][6][7][3]
Political position	Right-wing[8] to far-right[9][10][11]
National affiliation	Brazil above everything, God above everyone
Website
http://prtb.org.br/
Politics of Brazil Political parties Elections

The Brazilian Labour Renewal Party (Portuguese: Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro, PRTB) is a conservative Brazilian political party. It was founded in 1994 and its electoral number is 28.^[12] According to the party's official website, PRTB's main ideology is "to establish an economic system based on participatory decision making as the primary economic mechanism for allocation in society".^[13]

Overview[]

It comes from members of the extinct PTR, a party that functioned between 1985 and 1993, which had merged with the PST, originating the PP. This group, led by Levy Fidelix, had already tried to organize the PTRB, which only ran in the 1994 elections.

During the 1998 Brazilian general election, Fernando Collor de Mello decided to run again for the office of President of Brazil for the same party that elected him in 1989: the National Reconstruction Party (PRN), now the Christian Labour Party (PTC). The PRTB, together with the PRN, formed the Renova Brasil (Renew Brazil) coalition, in support of the former President of the Republic. The Superior Electoral Court (TSE), however, prevented his candidacy from materializing, due to the eight-year period in which he could not be elected to any elective term.^[14]

It was registered on the Superior Electoral Court on 18 February 1997 and Levy Fidelix was elected as party president.^[15]

In 2006 the party gained electoral importance because of the election of ex-President Fernando Collor de Mello, impeached in 1992,^[16] who made his comeback in national politics as a Senator. However, in 2007 De Mello left PRTB and switched to the Brazilian Labour Party.^[17]

The party candidated its president Levy Fidelix in the Brazilian presidential election of 2010 and he obtained 57,960 votes (0.06%).^[18]

In the Brazilian general election of 2014, Fidelix was candidate again^[19] and presented himself with a conservative speech and, according to him, the only right-wing candidate.^[20] In the first round of the general election, Fidelix received 446,878 votes, representing 0.43% of the popular vote.^[21] The PRTB's founder ranked 7th out of 11 candidates, however achieved his best performance in an election throughout his career. In the second round, Fidelix supported candidate Aécio Neves.^[22]

For the Brazilian general election of 2018, PRTB formed the coalition "Brazil above everything, God above everyone" (Brasil acima de tudo, Deus acima de todos) together with the Social Liberal Party to support candidate Jair Bolsonaro.^[23] In May 2018, his pick for Vice President, Hamilton Mourão, joined the party.^[24]

Controversies[]

The party has been accused of having links with neo-nazi and neofascist organizations and promoting fake news and conspiracy theories on the internet.^[25]

During 2014 Brazilian general election the party leader and candidate Levy Fidelix during a debate made a statement that homosexuals “need psychological care” and were better kept “well away from [the rest of] us." He also said that Brazil’s population of 200 million would be reduced by half if homosexuality were encouraged because “the excretory system” does not function as a means of reproduction.^[26] Fidelix obtained 0.43% of votes.

Electoral history[]

Presidential elections[]

Election	Candidate	Running mate	Colligation	First round		Second round		Result
				Votes	%	Votes	%
1998	None	None	None	-	-	-	-	-
2002
2006
2010	Levy Fidelix (PRTB)	Luiz Eduardo Ayres Duarte (PRTB)	None	57,960	0.06 (#7)	-	-	Lost N
2014		José Alves de Oliveira (PRTB)	None	446,878	0.43 (#7)	-	-	Lost N
2018	Jair Bolsonaro (PSL)	Hamilton Mourão (PRTB)	"Brazil above everything, God above everyone" PSL; PRTB	49,227,010	46,03 (#1)	57,797,121	55,13 (#1)	Elected Y
Source: Election Resources: Federal Elections in Brazil – Results Lookup

Chamber of Deputies elections[]

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1994	154,666	0.4%	0 / 513
1998	1,843,296	2.8%	0 / 513
2002	304,092	0.3%	0 / 513
2006	171,908	0.2%	0 / 513
2010	307,925	0.3%	2 / 513	2
2014	454,190	0.47%	1 / 513	1
2018	684,976	0.7%	0 / 513	1

Senate elections[]

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1998	36,328	0.1%	0 / 81
	32,258	0.1%
2002	Unknown	Unknown	0 / 81
2006	644,111	0.8%	1 / 81	1
2010	74,478	0.0%	0 / 81	1
2014	38,429	0.04%	0 / 81
2018	886,267	0.5%	0 / 81

References[]