The Workers' Party was launched by a heterogeneous group made up of militants opposed to Brazil's military government, trade unionists, left-wing intellectuals and artists and Catholics linked to the liberation theology on 10 February 1980 at Colégio Sion in São Paulo, a private Catholic school for girls. 7.1.2 Tendencies categorized as the left-wing of the party.7.1.1 Tendencies integrating the Building a New Brazil field.6.1 2003–2007 internal crisis and split.4.2 Chamber of Deputies and Senate elections.Workers' Party's TSE ( Superior Electoral Court) Identification Number is 13. The party's symbols are the red flag with a white star in the center the five-pointed red star, inscribed with the initials PT in the center and the Workers Party's anthem. Both parties generally prohibit any kind of coalition or official cooperation with each other.ĭespite its relatively large number of supporters, the party has been involved in a number of corruption scandals since Lula first came to power and saw its popular support plummet between 20, with presidential approval ratings falling from over 80% to 9%. His successor Dilma Rousseff, also a member of PT, took office on 1 January 2011 and was impeached in 2016.īoth born among the opposition to the coup d'état of 1964 and the subsequent military dictatorship, PT and the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) from 1994 to 2014 were the biggest adversaries in contemporary Brazilian politics, with their candidates finishing either first or second on the ballot on the last six presidential elections. After the 2002 parliamentary election, PT became the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies and the largest in the Federal Senate for the first time With the highest approval rating in the history of the country, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is PT's most prominent member. PT governed at the federal level in a coalition government with several other parties from 1 January 2003 to 31 August 2016.

Founded in 1980, it is the largest left-wing party in Latin America. Some scholars classify its ideology in the 21st century as social democracy, with the party shifting from a broadly socialist ideology in the 1990s.

The Workers' Party ( Brazilian Portuguese: Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) is a political party in Brazil.

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