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Progressive Party (Brazil, 1993)

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Progressive Party
Partido Progressista
AbbreviationPP
PresidentÁlvaro Dias
FoundedMay 27, 1993
DissolvedSeptember 24, 1995
Preceded bySocial Labour Party
Renovator Labour Party
Merged intoBrazilian Progressive Party
IdeologyConservatism
Political positionCentre-right

The Progressive Party (Portuguese: Partido Progressista, PP) was a political party in Brazil founded in 1993 by the Social Labour Party and the Reform Labour Party.

In 1995 the party merged with the Reform Progressive Party into Brazilian Progressive Party.

This new party re-changed its name to the Progressive Party in 2003.

Its first national president was Alvaro Dias, former governor and now senator for Podemos in the state of Paraná, having been a candidate for the government of Paraná in 1994, coming in 2nd place, being defeated by Jaime Lerner