Avante (political party)

Avante
File:Logo of Avante (Brazil).png
President	Luis Tibé
Founded	1989
Split from	Brazilian Labour Party
Headquarters	Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Membership	185,473
Ideology	Third Way Getulism Labourism Civic nationalism Christian solidarism Federalism
Political position	Centre
Colours	Turquoise      Orange
TSE Identification Number	70
Chamber of Deputies	7 / 513
Federal Senate	0 / 81
City councillors	535 / 56,810
Website
www.avante70.org.br
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Avante ([aˈvɐ̃ntʃi], lit. Forward) is a centrist Brazilian political party. It was founded in 1989 by dissidents of the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) as the Labour Party of Brazil (Partido Trabalhista do Brasil, PTdoB) and is a minor force in Brazilian politics.

History

In 1998, the party chose João de Deus Barbosa as its Presidential candidate; he received 200,000 votes (0.2%). In the legislative election of 2006, the party elected one representative to the Federal Chamber, and had 0.3% of the national votes (311,000 votes) for the parliament. In the legislative election of 2010 this increased to three representatives and 0.7% of the national vote (642,422 votes). At the 2014 election, the party won two seats and 0.85% of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies; it gained one seat following the defection of Silvio Costa from the Social Christian Party. The party has 534 local councillors and controls 26 mayoralties. PTdoB voted in favor of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.

In 2017, PTdoB changed its name to Avante, Portuguese for 'Forward'. For the Brazilian general election of 2018, Avante joined the 'Sovereign Brazil' coalition, together with the Democratic Labour Party, in support of PDT candidate Ciro Gomes. Gomes obtained 12.47% of the votes, finishing third.

The party saw an increase of votes in the parliamentary vote, electing 7 deputies; however, it failed to elect any senator. Following the election, Avante did not go into opposition like PTD, but remained neutral towards president Jair Bolsonaro. In the 2022 election Avante supported the centre-left candidate Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva (Workers' Party, PT); the party increased its representation to 7 Deputies in such election.

Electoral results

Legislative elections

Election	Chamber of Deputies				Federal Senate				Role in government
	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1990	78,358	0.19%	0 / 502	New	N/A	N/A	0 / 81	New	Extra-parliamentary
1994	39	0.00%	0 / 513	0	N/A	N/A	0 / 81	0	Extra-parliamentary
1998	216,640	0.33%	0 / 513	0	62,086	0.10%	0 / 81	0	Extra-parliamentary
2002	168,639	0.19%	0 / 513	0	19,175	0.01%	0 / 81	0	Extra-parliamentary
2006	311,833	0.33%	1 / 513	1	69,923	0.08%	0 / 81	0	Coalition
2010	642,422	0.67%	3 / 513	2	1,480,846	0.87%	0 / 81	0	Independent
2014	812,497	0.84%	1 / 513	2	11,300	0.01%	0 / 81	0	Coalition
2018	1,844,048	1.88%	7 / 513	6	731,379	0.43%	0 / 81	0	Coalition
2022	2,205,176	2.00%	7 / 513	0	1,369,655	1.35%	0 / 81	0	Coalition

See also

• Category:Avante (political party) politicians

References

Preceded by 65 - CPofB (PCdoB)

Numbers of Brazilian Official Political Parties 70 - AVANTE

Succeeded by 77 - SOLIDARIEDADE