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Founded in 1988 by MDB dissidents, it governed under Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Real Plan, privatizations and fiscal responsibility) and is now a declining centrist party favoring reforms and trade openness.
Political axes
Leans further toward progressive than 79% of the 159 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most parties and organizations.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 266 ideologies
German liberal school that defends the free market within firm rules guaranteed by the state, fighting monopolies and ensuring competition and stability, serving as the basis of the social market economy.
Current of Brazil's PSDB, founded in 1988 by Covas, Montoro and Cardoso, joining a market economy, social state, state reform and fiscal responsibility with parliamentarism and moderation on social issues.
Pro-market centrist branch that combines fiscal responsibility, liberal democracy, moderate international openness, and institutional reform, rejecting both broad statism and libertarian radicalism as a political program.
The most distant ideology
ReactionaryismFar-Right31%
Governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leite privatised the state water and power utilities and reformed its pension system; the first Brazilian governor to come out as gay, he switched parties to run in 2026.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
Center party founded by Gilberto Kassab in 2011, pragmatic and without a defined ideology, that joins governments of any camp. It defends a market economy, institutional stability and federalism, with leaders such as Ratinho Jr. and Eduardo Paes.
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