>PT (Worker's Party)
The current ruling party. Centre-left. Popular with teachers.
>PL (Liberal Party)
The main opposition party. Far-right. Popular with baby boomers.
>Novo (New)
Libertarian. Popular with rich people.
>PSOL (Socialism and Liberty Party)
Left-wing with a focus on social issues like feminism and LGBT rights. Popular with young women.
>Missão (Mission)
Alt-right. Popular with young men (mostly on the internet).
>NR (New Resistance)
Nazbol. Popular with… nobody, they're not even a real party.
>PCB (Brazilian Communist Party)
Far-left, not to be confused with PCdoB (Communist Party of Brazil) which split from it and is more reformist. Popular with old communists.
>PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party)
Used to be the main opposition party, but lost ground to PL after 2014. Centre-right despite the name. Popular with toucans (it's the party's mascot).
>MDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement)
Radical centrist. Popular with NPCs.
>pis
center to center right - popular with older conservatives
>ko
center to center left - neolibs and lefties that want to have an actual career in politics
>psl
perfectly amoral - used to be >the party for nepotism, currently has less voters than it has members (unironically)
>lewica
center to left - remains of prl aparatchiks. they won elections in the 90s big style and as the result of their short rule became notorious for eastern style and scale corruption they've since tried reinventing themselves as neolibs and lgbt but they never managed to claw back to even 10% support (and never will)
>konfederacja
center right to far right - everyone that's right wing but doesn't want to be part of pis including classic liberal and loons. traditionally only support was only within teenagers became mainstream in last two decades
>razem
new left - leftist that don't want the prl->sld->lewica burder. other than that the only difference between razem and lewica at the moment is their stance on israel because lewica is basically the party of jewish diaspora while razem can afford to denounce israeli warcrimes. currently only popular with teenagers (as konfederacja used to be)
every other party is a split from one of the already named ones that operates inside of the mother party
>>2879476You want primary sources?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(Brazil,_2006)#cite_note-farright-10>"Bolsonaro party challenges Brazil election result". BBC News. 23 November 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2025. The far-right party of Brazil's outgoing president, Jair Bolsonaro, has challenged some votes in October's election that saw him lose narrowly to leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.>Harris, Bryan (24 September 2023). "Brazil's conservative carnival tries to put on brave face in era of resurgent left". Financial Times. Retrieved 6 February 2025. "Lula's government is marked by hatred, resentment and revenge," said Julia Zanatta, a federal lawmaker with Bolsonaro's increasingly far-right Liberal party.>Venugopalan, Murali; Venugopalan, Johanna; Venugopalan, Mundiyath (26 May 2023). One Nice Guy Not so Nice: Joe Biden's Ineptitude. AuthorHouse. ISBN 979-8-8230-0783-2. Seventy-seven old former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from the left-wing Workers' Party beat sixty-seven year old President Jair Bolsonaro from the far-right Liberal Party by five percentage points in the first round, four weeks ago.>Munk, Tine; Kennedy, Morag (3 September 2024). Victimisation in the Digital Age: An Online/Offline Continuum Approach. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-040-13048-3. The legal actions were initiated by the Liberal Party, a far-right group that supported the establishment of Jair Bolsonaro's government.>Mukherjee, Hoimi (1 June 2023). "Brazil's Emergence in the United States' 'Backyard': Domestic Leadership and Systemic Status". Jadavpur Journal of International Relations. 27 (1): 7–32. doi:10.1177/09735984231161723. ISSN 0973-5984. Recent disclosure shed light on the role played by the United States and a section of anti-Lula elites in Lula's controversial arrest and the rise of Bolsonaro of the far-right Liberal Party (Fishman et al. 2020; Fox 2022).Does the BBC (which is United Kingdom state media) and Financial Times have a “left-wing bias” too?