Democratic Social Party

Democratic Social Party

Partido Democrático Social
Democratic Social Party Partido Democrático Social
President	Paulo Maluf (last)
Founded	31 January 1980
Dissolved	4 April 1993
Preceded by	National Renewal Alliance
Merged into	Reform Progressive Party
Headquarters	Brasília, DF
Ideology	Conservatism; Liberal conservatism
Political position	Right-wing
Colours	Blue
	Politics of Brazil; Political parties; Elections;

The Democratic Social Party (Portuguese: Partido Democrático Social, PDS) was a conservative Brazilian political party.

It was established in 1979 as a continuation of the National Renewal Alliance (ARENA), the political wing of the military during the 1965–79 military dictatorship, at a time in which the country was moving away from authoritarianism. However, the official foundation date is 31 January 1980. In 1985, when Paulo Maluf won the party's nomination for the presidential bid, a huge group, led by José Sarney (former leader of ARENA from 1971 to 1980 and of the PDS from 1980–85), Jorge Bornhausen and Marco Maciel, founded the Liberal Front Party (PFL). Sarney was elected Vice-President in that year's election, but he served from the beginning as President, due to the death of President-elect Tancredo Neves.

The Democratic Social Party suffered bad defeats both 1986 (7.9%) and 1990 (8.9%) elections for the Chamber of Deputies, when at the same time PFL took 17.7% and 12.4%. In 1986, in particular, the party was seriously defeated also in state elections, so that all of the 12 governorships won in 1982 were lost.

In 1993 the party merged with the Christian Democratic Party (3.0% in 1990 elections for the lower house) to form the Reform Progressive Party, which was intended to be a moderate-conservative party.

Electoral history[]

Presidential elections[]

Election	Party candidate	Electoral votes	%	Result
1985	Paulo Maluf	180	27.27%	Lost N

Notes[]

Election was on electoral college not popular vote

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Result
1989	Paulo Salim Maluf	5,986,012	8.9%	Lost N

Chamber of Deputies and Senate elections[]

Election	Chamber of Deputies					Federal Senate
Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position
1982	17,775,738	43.2%	235 / 479	4	1st	17,799,069	42.2%	15 / 25		1st
1986	3,731,735	7.9%	38 / 487	198	3rd			2 / 49	13	3rd
1990	3,609,196	8.9%	42 / 502	9	5th			2 / 31		5th

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