Democratic Renewal Party (Brazil)

In 2017, the PEN changed when

After an internal conflict, Bolsonaro gave up on joining Patriota and chose to join the Social Liberal Party instead in January 2018. Nevertheless, the party maintained its change of name and ideology, and launched former firefighter and evangelical pastor Cabo Daciolo as their presidential nominee, without partnering with any political party. Daciolo is known for his controversial political views, which include turning Brazil into a Christian theocracy. Daciolo got 1.3% of votes and did not endorse Bolsonaro nor Haddad in the second round.^[28]

Threshold of Patriota

In 2018, Patriota didn't reach the minimum percentage. Consequently, the party absorbed the Progressive Republican Party (PRP).^[29] Patriota failed to reach the threshold again in 2022.

Fusion

On 26 October 2022, the fusion was approved by the national conventions of both parties, having as a requirement the ban on Jefferson and Eduardo Cunha in the new party.^[3][30][31]

The merger was approved by the Superior Electoral Court under the Democratic Renewal Party name on 9 November 2023.^[23]

Name

It was originally decided that the new party would be called More Brazil (Portuguese: Mais Brasil) and would use the number 25, previously used by the defunct Democrats (DEM), which fused with the Social Liberal Party (PSL) in 2021 to form the Brazil Union.^[10][11][12] However, the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) had previously rejected a petition from the Brazilian Woman's Party to change their name to "For More Brazil" (Portuguese: Por Mais Brasil), on the grounds that the name made no distinction from its political-ideological orientation and could cause confusion among voters in relation to the Brazilian state itself,^[32][33] so as a preventative measure the party approved the name "Democratic Renewal Party" as a secondary or backup name in case the TSE rejected the original name.^[34]

Ideology

The predecessor parties of the PRD, PTB and Patriota, were conservative and nationalist parties at the time of the merger, even having integralist^[8] factions with the arrival of some members of the PTB Brazilian Integralist Front. The parties can be considered as right-wing to far-right.^[7]

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