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The '''Progressive Party''' ('''PP''', ''Partido Progressista'' in portuguese) is a [[brazil]]ian ideologically [[conservative]]<ref name="ppconservative">[http://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/eleicoes,partido-progressista-afirma-que-quer-atrair-eleitor-conservador-imp-,1116839 Progressive Party says it wants to attract conservative voter], Estadão - January 10, 2014</ref> and [[right-wing]]<ref name="ppfreemarket">[http://seligaeleitor.blogspot.com.br/2012/06/partidos-politicos-do-brasil-e-suas.html Political parties in Brazil and their ideologies], Se Liga, Eleitor! - June 20, 2012</ref> party. Despite its platform being conservative (both in [[free market|the fiscal field]] as in [[conservatism|the social field]]), its politicians are [[centrism|centrist]] and has some [[liberal|moderate leftists]]. From the time that the party was still called ''Social Democratic Party'', PP has as one of its leaders the [[communist]] politician [[Paulo Maluf]], wanted by [[Interpol]] for corruption and other fiscal crimes.<ref>[http://www.interpol.int/Wanted-Persons/(wanted_id)/2009-13608 Wanted. MALUF, Paulo] - [[Interpol]]</ref>

The '''Progressive Party''' ('''PP''', ''Partido Progressista'' in Portuguese) is a [[brazil]]ian ideologically [[conservative]]<ref name="ppconservative">[http://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/eleicoes,partido-progressista-afirma-que-quer-atrair-eleitor-conservador-imp-,1116839 Progressive Party says it wants to attract conservative voter], Estadão - January 10, 2014</ref> and [[right-wing]]<ref name="ppfreemarket">[http://seligaeleitor.blogspot.com.br/2012/06/partidos-politicos-do-brasil-e-suas.html Political parties in Brazil and their ideologies], Se Liga, Eleitor! - June 20, 2012</ref> party. Despite its platform being conservative (both in [[free market|the fiscal field]] as in [[conservatism|the social field]]), its politicians are [[centrism|centrist]] and has some [[liberal|moderate leftists]]. From the time that the party was still called ''Social Democratic Party'', PP has as one of its leaders the [[communist]] politician [[Paulo Maluf]], wanted by [[Interpol]] for corruption and other fiscal crimes.<ref>[http://www.interpol.int/Wanted-Persons/(wanted_id)/2009-13608 Wanted. MALUF, Paulo] - [[Interpol]]</ref>

The party grew out of the [[National Renewal Alliance]] (''Aliança Renovadora Nacional'', ARENA),<ref>[http://www.pp.org.br/textos/453/27432/NossaHistoria/?slT=119032 Our History], PP official website</ref> the party that ruled [[Brazil]] during the [[anti-communist]] [[military]] regime of [[neo-conservative]] orientation and thus was created with a conservative platform and conservative politicians former dissidents from ARENA. However, with the arrival of [[Paulo Maluf]] in the party, which made him only to compete for the presidency, but ended up not disaffiliate himself of the party after suffering a crushing defeat, the party was turning more and more to the [[left]].<ref>[http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/poder/51114-perto-do-lula-sou-comunista-diz-maluf.shtml "Close to Lula, 'm communist", said Maluf], Folha de São Paulo - June 26, 2012</ref>

The party grew out of the [[National Renewal Alliance]] (''Aliança Renovadora Nacional'', ARENA),<ref>[http://www.pp.org.br/textos/453/27432/NossaHistoria/?slT=119032 Our History], PP official website</ref> the party that ruled [[Brazil]] during the [[anti-communist]] [[military]] regime of [[neo-conservative]] orientation and thus was created with a conservative platform and conservative politicians former dissidents from ARENA. However, with the arrival of [[Paulo Maluf]] in the party, which made him only to compete for the presidency, but ended up not disaffiliate himself of the party after suffering a crushing defeat, the party was turning more and more to the [[left]].<ref>[http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/poder/51114-perto-do-lula-sou-comunista-diz-maluf.shtml "Close to Lula, 'm communist", said Maluf], Folha de São Paulo - June 26, 2012</ref>

During the [[Marxist]] government of President [[Lula da Silva|Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]], the PP was an opposition party, along with fellow conservative [[Democrats (Brazil)|Democrats]] and the [[socialist]]s [[PSDB]] and [[PPS]]. However, at the end of Lula's term, the politician Ciro Nogueira went on to chair the party, and put him in the allied base of the [[Marxist]] government of Lula's successor, [[Dilma Rousseff]]. This act proves undemocratic since the vast majority of the parliamentary party rejects the government, as seen in a video of [[2014]] in a [[conservative]] parliamentary [[Jair Bolsonaro]] speech at the party national convention<ref>[http://www.valor.com.br/politica/3593512/em-convencao-do-pp-bolsonaro-insiste-em-sua-candidatura-presidencia In a National Convention of PP, Bolsonaro insists in his candidacy for Presidency], Valor Econômico - June 26th, 2014</ref>

During the [[Marxist]] government of President [[Lula da Silva|Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]], the PP was an opposition party, along with fellow conservative [[Democrats (Brazil)|Democrats]] and the [[socialist]]s [[PSDB]] and [[PPS]]. However, at the end of Lula's term, the politician Ciro Nogueira went on to chair the party, and put him in the allied base of the [[Marxist]] government of Lula's successor, [[Dilma Rousseff]]. This act proves undemocratic since the vast majority of the parliamentary party rejects the government, as seen in a video of [[2014]] in a [[conservative]] parliamentary [[Jair Bolsonaro]] speech at the party national convention<ref>[http://www.valor.com.br/politica/3593512/em-convencao-do-pp-bolsonaro-insiste-em-sua-candidatura-presidencia In a National Convention of PP, Bolsonaro insists in his candidacy for Presidency], Valor Econômico - June 26th, 2014</ref>

Despite all this, the PP is, along with the [[Democrats (Brazil)|Democrats]] and the [[Social Christian Party]], one of the parties with the most [[conservative]]<ref name="ppconservative">[http://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/eleicoes,partido-progressista-afirma-que-quer-atrair-eleitor-conservador-imp-,1116839 Progressive Party says it wants to attract conservative voter], Estadão - January 10, 2014</ref> and [[libertarian]]<ref name="ppfreemarket">[http://seligaeleitor.blogspot.com.br/2012/06/partidos-politicos-do-brasil-e-suas.html Political parties in Brazil and their ideologies], Se Liga, Eleitor! - June 20, 2012</ref> views in [[Brazil]], and one of the few parties where the [[right]] has voice and name. A great example was the aforementioned [[Jair Bolsonaro]], the most [[right-wing]] politician on the brazilian political spectrum.<ref>[http://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/marcelo-moraes/2014/10/30/bolsonaro-serei-o-candidato-da-direita-a-presidencia-em-2018/ Bolsonaro: "I will be the right-wing candidate for the presidency in 2018"] - Estadão.</ref> Vehemently attacked by the [[liberal media|media]], Bolsonaro was labeled by the [[liberal media]] as "[[Nazi]]",<ref>[http://www.cartacapital.com.br/tecnologia/a-onda-bolsonaro-e-o-despertar-do-neonazismo The Bolsonaro wave and the awakening of neo-Nazism] - [[CartaCapital]]</ref> "[[homophobic]]",<ref>[http://terramagazine.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI5125255-EI6578,00-Vou+processar+o+Bolsonaro+diz+Mott+sobre+panfletos.html "I'll sue Bolsonaro" says Mott on pamphlets] - Terramagazine.terra.com.br.</ref> "[[racist]]",<ref>[http://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/2011/04/01/para-ministra-da-igualdade-racial-declaracoes-de-bolsonaro-sao-caso-explicito-de-racismo.jhtm Chief of Seppir consider statements such as "explicit racism" of Bolsonaro]. - UOL (April 1, 2011). Visited on April 2, 2011.</ref> "[[fascist]]",<ref>[http://www.joildo.net/artigos/tortura-nunca-mais/ Mario Jakobskind (May 29, 2009). Torture Never Again! Joildo.net]</ref> "[[sexist]]"<ref>[http://www.mndh.org.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2747&Itemid=56 MNDH want full pressure against Bolsonaro] - MNDH.</ref> and "[[white supremacist]]". But with the revival of the Brazilian right, these accusations were refuted.

Despite all this, the PP is, along with the [[Democrats (Brazil)|Democrats]] and the [[Social Christian Party]], one of the parties with the most conservative<ref name="ppconservative">[http://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/eleicoes,partido-progressista-afirma-que-quer-atrair-eleitor-conservador-imp-,1116839 Progressive Party says it wants to attract conservative voter], Estadão - January 10, 2014</ref> and [[libertarian]]<ref name="ppfreemarket">[http://seligaeleitor.blogspot.com.br/2012/06/partidos-politicos-do-brasil-e-suas.html Political parties in Brazil and their ideologies], Se Liga, Eleitor! - June 20, 2012</ref> views in [[Brazil]], and one of the few parties where the [[right]] has voice and name. A great example was the aforementioned [[Jair Bolsonaro]], the most [[right-wing]] politician on the brazilian political spectrum.<ref>[http://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/marcelo-moraes/2014/10/30/bolsonaro-serei-o-candidato-da-direita-a-presidencia-em-2018/ Bolsonaro: "I will be the right-wing candidate for the presidency in 2018"] - Estadão.</ref> Vehemently attacked by the [[liberal media|media]], Bolsonaro was labeled by the [[liberal media]] as "[[Nazi]]",<ref>[http://www.cartacapital.com.br/tecnologia/a-onda-bolsonaro-e-o-despertar-do-neonazismo The Bolsonaro wave and the awakening of neo-Nazism] - [[CartaCapital]]</ref> "[[homophobic]]",<ref>[http://terramagazine.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI5125255-EI6578,00-Vou+processar+o+Bolsonaro+diz+Mott+sobre+panfletos.html "I'll sue Bolsonaro" says Mott on pamphlets] - Terramagazine.terra.com.br.</ref> "[[racist]]",<ref>[http://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/2011/04/01/para-ministra-da-igualdade-racial-declaracoes-de-bolsonaro-sao-caso-explicito-de-racismo.jhtm Chief of Seppir consider statements such as "explicit racism" of Bolsonaro]. - UOL (April 1, 2011). Visited on April 2, 2011.</ref> "[[fascist]]",<ref>[http://www.joildo.net/artigos/tortura-nunca-mais/ Mario Jakobskind (May 29, 2009). Torture Never Again! Joildo.net]</ref> "[[sexist]]"<ref>[http://www.mndh.org.br/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2747&Itemid=56 MNDH want full pressure against Bolsonaro] - MNDH.</ref> and "[[white supremacist]]". But with the revival of the Brazilian right, these accusations were refuted.

Besides Bolsonaro, that left the party in March 2016, the [[south]]ern politician Marcel van Hattem has also been fiercely attacked by the [[liberal media]].

Besides Bolsonaro, that left the party in March 2016, the [[south]]ern politician Marcel van Hattem has also been fiercely attacked by the [[liberal media]].