Brazilian Woman's Party

The Brazilian Woman's Party[11][12] (Portuguese: Partido da Mulher Brasileira, PMB) is a right-wing political party in Brazil which uses the number 35.[13] Known for its non-feminist and anti-abortion stance, the party is not represented in the National Congress.[14]

Brazilian Woman's Party
Partido da Mulher Brasileira
AbbreviationPMB
PresidentSuêd Haidar Nogueira
Founded2008[1]
Registered29 September 2015; 9 years ago (2015-09-29)[2]
Membership (2024)Increase 56,166[3]
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing
ColorsDark blue
Party number35
Legislative Assemblies[7]
3 / 1,024
Mayors[8]
2 / 5,569
Municipal Chambers[9][10]
109 / 58,208
Website
pmb.org.br

The PMB was founded in 2015 by Sued Haidar, who doubled as the president of the party's National Committee.[15] At its peak, the party was the tenth largest in Congress,[16] represented by 21 federal deputies in the Chamber of Deputies,[15] only two of which were women,[16] and one representative in the Federal Senate, Senator Hélio José.[16] All later switched to other parties. In 2017, the party was condemned by the Superior Electoral Court of Minas Gerais for not having the minimum quota of women candidates.[17] Most of the deputies have since left the party, and José switched his party affiliation to the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party in March 2016.[18]

In January 2017, the PMB had 38,438 members.[19] As of July 2018, this number has grown to 42,619.[19]

On 2021, the party attempted to change its name to "Brasil 35", a modification made to attract the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro after he left his original Social Liberal Party and failed to create his own Alliance for Brazil,[20][21] and mark the transition of the party to conservatism.[22] However, in April 2022, the Superior Electoral Court refused the name change, on the basis that "the change of the party's name to “Brasil”, [...] would have intense potential to generate confusion or mislead the electorate."[23]

Notable members

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Current members
Name Birth date Relevant offices by PMB Relevant offices by other parties
Abraham Weintraub 11 October 1971
Former members
Name Birth date Death date Relevant offices by PMB Relevant offices by other parties
Brunny Gomes 21 August 1989 living
Cabo Daciolo 30 March 1976 living
Marcelo Álvaro Antônio 16 February 1974 living
Major Olímpio 20 March 1962 18 March 2021

Electoral history

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Legislative elections

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Election Chamber of Deputies Federal Senate Role in government
Votes % Seats +/– Votes % Seats +/–
2018 228,302 0.23%
0 / 513
New 51,027 0.03%
0 / 81
New Extra-parliamentary
2022 85,722 0.08%
0 / 513
  0 61,350 0.06%
0 / 81
  0 Extra-parliamentary

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "TSE aprova criação do Partido da Mulher Brasileira, 35ª legenda do país". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). 29 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Partidos políticos registrados no TSE". Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (in Portuguese). Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  3. ^ "Filiação partidária mensal | Estatísticas". Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (in Portuguese). Retrieved 8 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Partido da Mulher Brasileira não levanta a bandeira feminista". Pública (in Portuguese). 17 December 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  5. ^ Araújo, Thiago de (12 February 2016). "Em entrevista, Denise Abreu diz que "o PMB é antifeminista"". Exame (in Portuguese). Retrieved 8 November 2023.
  6. ^ Klein, Cristian (2 September 2015). "Partido da Mulher tem mais homens e é antiaborto". Valor Econômico (in Portuguese). No. 3833. Senado Federal. p. A10. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  7. ^ "Raio-X das eleições: Leia como serão as assembleias em 2023". Poder360 (in Portuguese). 11 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Relembre quantos prefeitos e vereadores cada partido elegeu em 2020". Poder360 (in Portuguese). 6 October 2023.
  9. ^ "Vereadores eleitos por partido em 2020". Poder360 (in Portuguese).
  10. ^ "Eleições 2020: 58.208 vagas de vereadores estarão em disputa neste domingo (15)". Superior Electoral Court (in Portuguese). 14 November 2020.
  11. ^ "A historic turning point in Brazil • International Socialism". International Socialism. 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  12. ^ "In Brazil, women remain tremendously underrepresented". The Brazilian Report. 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2022-06-20.
  13. ^ "Partido da Mulher Brasileira". Tribunal Superior Eleitoral. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  14. ^ Salek, Silvia (May 16, 2016). "How Rousseff has highlighted Brazil's sexism problem". BBC. Brazil. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  15. ^ a b "An Anti-feminist Women's Party". plus55. 24 February 2016. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  16. ^ a b c Douglas, Bruce (29 December 2015). "The Party of the Brazilian Woman is not actually a women's political party". The Guardian. Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  17. ^ "Partido da Mulher Brasileira é condenado por não dar espaço para mulheres". Estado de Minas (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
  18. ^ Shalom, David; Iory, Nicolas (24 March 2016). "Após ascensão meteórica, novato PMB se torna menor partido do Congresso Nacional". Último Segundo. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  19. ^ a b "Estatísticas do eleitorado – Eleitores filiados". Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  20. ^ "PMB é o décimo partido que muda de nome em dez anos; veja outros". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  21. ^ R7. "Bolsonaro vai filiar-se ao Partido da Mulher Brasileira para disputar a reeleição". Correio do Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-10-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  22. ^ null. "Como o ex-Partido da Mulher abandonou o progressismo, virou conservador e atraiu Weintraub". Gazeta do Povo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-10-27.
  23. ^ "TSE mantém rejeição à mudança de nome do Partido da Mulher Brasileira (PMB)". Superior Electoral Court. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 28 July 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
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Preceded by Numbers of Brazilian Official Political Parties
35 - BWP (PMB)
Succeeded by