Democratic Labour Party (Brazil)
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Democratic Labour Party Partido Democrático Trabalhista | ||
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State Assemblies 52 / 1,060 | ||
Mayors | 314 / 5,568 | |
City Councillors | 3,441 / 56,810 | |
Mercosur Parliament | 1 / 55 | |
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Party flag | ||
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The Democratic Labour Party (Portuguese: Partido Democrático Trabalhista, PDT) is a political party in Brazil.
History
The Democratic Labour Party (PDT) was founded in 1979 by left-wing leader
The Socialist Youth, founded in 1981, was originally called Labour Youth. Its name had been changed twice: in 1984, to Socialist Labour Youth, and then to Socialist Youth in 1985. The intention was to support the group that defended the participation of the party in the Socialist International as well as the change of the party's name to Socialist Party. The latter never happened, partly due to the founding of the Brazilian Socialist Party.
PDT enjoyed wide, but regionalized electoral success in the 1980s and 1990s, with Brizola winning the governorship of the Rio de Janeiro state, becoming the first and only Brazilian to have governed two different states, previously his native Rio Grande do Sul before the coup and while leading a civil resistance campaign which had successfully delayed an earlier coup attempt in 1962.[7] Meanwhile, it also elected Alceu Collares for the latter's governorship, the first Black Brazilian governor in history.
The best result of the party in a presidential election was reached by historical leader Brizola, with 17% of the votes in the first round of the 1989 presidential elections. However, Brizola lost to rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by a margin of 0.5%, stopping him from facing the
In the 2002 legislative elections, the party won 21 out of the 513 seats of the Chamber of Deputies and five out of the 81 seats of the Senate. Its candidate also won the gubernatorial election in Amapá. Differences with PT, which had accumulated over the 90s as they disputed for similar voter bases, led to an early breakway from the Lula administration, and PDT entered the opposition.
In the local elections of October 2004, the party elected 300 mayors, 3252 city councilors, earning 5.5 million votes. Brizola's death in June that year resulted in a decade of stagnation.
After the political crisis involving the government of Lula, the PDT has received the affiliation of several left-wing leaders from the president's party, the Workers' Party (PT), that disagree with the government policies, including the former Minister of Education, Cristovam Buarque. Cristovam faced president Lula in the first round of the 2006 National Elections, reaching 4th place (with 2.538.834 or 2.64% of the votes). At the legislative elections of October 1, 2006, the party experienced slight gains, winning 24 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The PDT held onto the governorship of Amapá, and won a surprising victory in the gubernatorial election in Maranhão, which however was overturned due to electoral irregularities in 2009. At the 2010 elections, the PDT made gains in Parliament, winning 28 representatives, and it will have 4 Senate seats. It did not win any governorships, however, and only made it to one gubernatorial runoff, in Alagoas.
The PDT was the first party of president Dilma Rousseff (now in PT). Although the PDT voted against the impeachment of Rousseff, six deputies voted in favor, resulting in the suspension of five deputies and the expulsion of the sixth, Giovani Cherini.[8]
In 2018, the party announced Ciro Gomes, former Minister of Finance (1994-1995) and governor from the state of Ceará (1991-1994), to run for the presidency, receiving 12.47% of the votes in the first round,[9] the second highest by a PDT candidate, second only to Leonel Brizola's bid, in 1989.[10] Despite being against the winner of the first round, and the eventual president elected, Jair Bolsonaro, he did not formally endorse Fernando Haddad.[11] It launched Gomes for president again in 2022.[12]
Ideology
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The PDT combines a pro-labour and
With the arrival of Ciro Gomes and the crisis within the PT, PDT sought to regain the leadership of the left in the post-2014 elections. The move was partially successful: the PDT made significant gains in the municipal elections of 2016 and won more mayoral races than any party of the left apart from the PSB, while PT's own seats fell by 60%.[14] Ciro Gomes, despite having a comparatively much smaller campaign and multiple deals on PT's part to sway other parties, mainly PSB, away from PDT,[14] managed to finish in third place. In the runoff, Fernando Haddad, supported by former President Lula, then in jail, expected support from Ciro but this was ignored, and PDT instead assumed a position of neutrality. From 2019 onwards, PDT kept struggling with PT for leadership of the left.[14]
Logo
The current logo is the
Organisation
The party is organised in state and municipal directories and also in cooperational social movements, such as the Black Movement, the Labour Woman Association, the Labour Syndicate Union, the Socialist Youth and the Green Labour Movement. Its national directory is composed of over 250 members, while its national executive is composed of 21 members. The cooperational
Electoral results
Presidential elections
Election | Candidate | Running mate | Coalition | First round | Second round | Result | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||
1989 | Leonel Brizola (PDT) | Fernando Lyra (PDT) | None | 11,168,228 | 16.51% (#3) | - | - | Lost |
1994 | Darcy Ribeiro (PDT) | PDT; PMN
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2,015,836 | 3.19% (#5) | - | - | Lost | |
1998 | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) | Leonel Brizola (PDT) | PT; PDT; PSB; PCdoB; PCB | 21,475,211 | 31.71% (#2) | - | - | Lost |
2002 | Ciro Gomes (PPS) | PTB )
|
PTB ; PDT
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10,170,882 | 11.97% (#4) | - | - | Lost |
2006
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Cristovam Buarque (PDT) | Jefferson Péres (PDT) | None | 2,538,844 | 2,64% (#4) | - | - | Lost |
2010
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Dilma Rousseff (PT) | Michel Temer (PMDB) | PT; PMDB; PR; PSB; PDT; PCdoB; PSC; PRB; PTC; PTN | 47,651,434 | 46.9% (#1) | 55,752,529 | 56.1% (#1) | Elected |
2014
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43,267,668 | 41.6% (#1) | 54,501,118 | 51.6% (#1) | Elected | |||
2018
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Ciro Gomes (PDT) | Kátia Abreu (PDT) | PDT; AVANTE | 13,334,371 | 12,47% (#3) | - | - | Lost |
2022
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Ana Paula Matos (PDT) | None | 3,599,285 | 3,04% (#4) | - | - | Lost | |
Source: Election Resources: Federal Elections in Brazil – Results Lookup |
Legislative elections
Election | Chamber of Deputies | Federal Senate
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Role in government | ||||||
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Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | ||
1982
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2,394,723 | 5.82% | 23 / 479
|
New | 2,496,188 | 5.92% | 1 / 25
|
New | Opposition |
1986
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3,075,429 | 6.50% | 24 / 487
|
1 | N/A | N/A | 1 / 49
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0 | Opposition |
1990
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4,068,078 | 10.04% | 46 / 502
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22 | N/A | N/A | 1 / 31
|
0 | Opposition |
1994 | 3,303,404 | 7.23% | 34 / 513
|
12 | 7,299,932 | 7.62% | 4 / 54
|
3 | Opposition |
1998 | 3,776,541 | 5.67% | 25 / 513
|
9 | 3,195,863 | 5.17% | 4 / 81
|
0 | Opposition |
2002 | 4,482,538 | 5.12% | 21 / 513
|
4 | 7,932,624 | 5.26% | 5 / 81
|
1 | Coalition |
2006 | 4,854,017 | 5.21% | 24 / 513
|
3 | 5,023,041 | 5.95% | 5 / 81
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0 | Coalition |
2010
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4,854,602 | 5.03% | 28 / 513
|
4 | 2,431,940 | 1.43% | 4 / 81
|
1 | Coalition |
2014 | 3,469,168 | 3.57% | 19 / 513
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9 | 3,609,643 | 4.04% | 8 / 81
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4 | Coalition (2014–2016) |
Opposition (2016–2018) | |||||||||
2018 | 4,545,846 | 4.62% | 28 / 513
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9 | 7,737,982 | 4.52% | 5 / 81
|
3 | Opposition |
2022 | 3,843,174 | 3.49% | 17 / 513
|
11 | 1,650,222 | 1.62% | 2 / 81
|
3 | Coalition |
Important party leaders
- Leonel Brizola (1922–2004), the brother-in-law of President João Goulart, Brizola formed the Democratic Labour Party in 1979 in an attempt to reorganize the left-wing of the country after the last military sponsored President João Figueiredo brought an end to the political persecution of the left.
- Ciro Gomes, lawyer and politician, former governor of Ceará.
- Doutel de Andrade, Leader of the PTB Bench in the Chamber of Deputies in the Government of João Goulart (1961-1964), presided over PDT during the 1980s.
- Darcy Ribeiro, an anthropologist, one of the founders of the University of Brasília.
- Abdias do Nascimento, black intellectual and activist, he would become Senator in the 1990s by the PDT.
- Carlos Alberto Caó, a former student leader in the early 1960s and a black activist, "Caó" was the author, in 1989, of Law 7716, the "Anti-Racism Law"
- Alceu Collares, first Black Brazilian governor
- Jackson Lago, former mayor of São Luís and governor of Maranhão.
- Carlos Lupi, current party president and Minister of Social Security
- leader of the opposition
- President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil
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