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Social Democratic Party (Brazil, 2011)

This article is about the current political party in Brazil. For the historic political party with the same name, see Social Democratic Party (Brazil, 1945–65). For other parties with similar names, see Social Democratic Party.
Social Democratic Party
Partido Social Democrático
PresidentGilberto Kassab
FounderGilberto Kassab
Founded21 March 2011 (2011-03-21)
Split fromDemocrats (mainly)
Membership411,608[1]
IdeologyConservative liberalism
Christian democracy
Liberal conservatism
Political positionCentre-right
Colours    Blue, green, and yellow
TSE Identification Number55
Chamber of Deputies
42 / 513
Federal Senate
16 / 81
City Councillors
5,694 / 56,810
Website
psd.org.br

The Social Democratic Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Democrático, PSD) is a political party in Brazil led by Gilberto Kassab and uniting dissidents from various political parties, especially the Democrats, Brazilian Social Democracy Party and Party of National Mobilization.[2]

The party has become a major force for centrism in Brazil and commonly unites with both left-wing and right-wing parties. In this way, the party managed to have members occupying positions in ministries and important secretariats in the governments of presidents Dilma Rousseff, Michel Temer, Jair Bolsonaro, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. As such, PSD has been considered by political scientists as a big tent party,[3] which is part of the Centrão.[4] Until March 2021, PSD congressmen had on average more than 90% alignment with the Bolsonaro government in terms of votes in the National Congress.[5]

  1. ^ "Eleitores filiados". Archived from the original on 2018-11-03. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  2. ^ "Kassab funda PSD com promessa de apoio a Dilma". Folha de S. Paulo. April 14, 2011.
  3. ^ "PSD: um novo velho partido". VEJA (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  4. ^ Marés, Chico. ""Centrão" renasce na Câmara como a maior força do parlamento". Gazeta do Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-10-22.
  5. ^ "Radar do Congresso". radar.congressoemfoco.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-09-18.

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