Liberal Party (Brazil)

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The Liberal Party (Portuguese: Partido Liberal, PL) is a right-wing Bolsonarist political party in Brazil. From its foundation in 2006 until 2019, it was called the Party of the Republic (Portuguese: Partido da República, PR). The party was founded in 2006 as a merger of the 1985 Liberal Party and the Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (PRONA), as a big tent, centre-right party, and was considered part of the Centrão, a bloc of parties without consistent ideological orientation that support different sides of the political spectrum in order to gain political privileges. As such, it supported the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff—members of the centre-left Workers' Party (PT)—and Michel Temer. In 2021, it became the base of the then-president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro for the 2022 Brazilian general election. This led to many of his supporters joining the party, which thereby became the largest bloc in the National Congress of Brazil.

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