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Labour party founded by Leonel Brizola in 1979, heir to Getúlio Vargas's legacy, it defends economic nationalism, full-time public education and workers' rights, and today sits close to the Lula government.
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Leans further toward multiculturalism than 79% of the 159 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Immigration is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Trade, 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
Model associated with Brazil's Workers' Party governments that seeks growth with social inclusion, combining rising minimum wages, popular credit, cash transfers and public banks without breaking with the market.
A 1970s Western European communist current that sought a national path to socialism through elections, party pluralism and civil liberties, independent of Moscow, with a mixed economy under democratic planning.
Current that mobilizes the people against economic elites, defending redistribution, public control, national sovereignty, plebiscitary democracy, and broad social policy in popular anti-establishment language.
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Confederate ConservatismFar-Right36%
A Brazilian politician, Ciro Gomes champions a national-developmentalist project, with a strong state role in the economy, industrialization, and national sovereignty, positioning himself as a voice of center-left labourism.
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Left-wing party founded in 1980 by union leaders and social movements, in power with Lula since 2023, it defends a developmental state, social programs such as Bolsa Família, strong unions and multilateral foreign policy.
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