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Liberal Party Partido Liberal | |
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President | Valdemar Costa Neto |
Founder | Álvaro Valle |
Founded | June 25, 1985 |
Dissolved | October 2006 |
Merged into | Party of the Republic |
Headquarters | SCN-Qd. 2, Bl. D Sala 601, Edifício Liberty Mall Asa Norte, Brasília |
Ideology | Brazilian liberalism[1] Classical liberalism |
Political position | Centre-right[2][1][3] |
Colours | |
TSE Identification Number | 22 |
The Liberal Party (Partido Liberal, PL) was a conservative political party of Brazil, it merged into the Party of the Republic in 2006. The Pentecostal Universal Church of the Kingdom of God heavily influenced the party after 1999. In the 2002 election, José Alencar of the PL was the running mate of Lula da Silva and became the vice president.[2] At the legislative elections, 6 October 2002, the party won 26 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and three out of 81 seats in the Senate of Brazil and supported Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government. Some of its members were investigated following corruption allegations and suspected involvement in the so-called "Mensalão scandal". The Universal Church has now partially left PL to create a new party named Brazilian Republican Party (PRB) in 2005.
At the last elections, held in October 2006, the Liberal Party won 23 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one seat in the Senate for a total of three senate seats. The party did not run candidates in presidential or gubernatorial elections.