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Social Liberal Party Partido Social Liberal
Abbreviation	PSL
President-elect of Brazil	Jair Bolsonaro
President	Luciano Bivar
Founded	30 October 1994; 30 years ago (1994-10-30)
Headquarters	SHN, Quadra 02, Bloco F, Ed. Executive Office Tower, Sala 1.122 – Brasília, DF
Membership (July 2018)	241,439
Ideology	Brazilian nationalism Social conservatism Economic liberalism Fiscal conservatism Right-wing populism National conservatism Anti-communism Minority: Monarchism
Political position	Right-wing
Colours	Blue   Yellow   Green
TSE Identification Number	17
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies (2018)	52 / 513
Seats in the Senate (2018)	4 / 81
Governors (2018)	3 / 27
State deputies (2018)	76 / 1,035
City councillors (2016)	878 / 57,720
Website
psl.org.br
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The Social Liberal Party (Template:Lang-pt, PSL) is a right-wing conservative political party in Brazil, with advocate of economic liberal and social conservative policies. Founded in 1994 as a social liberal party, the PSL was registered on the Superior Electoral Court in 1998.

In January 2018, conservative and former Social Christian politician Jair Bolsonaro joined the party and later converted it into a economic liberal and social conservative party. The original name is intact for the time being after Livres (the party's original main wing) left the party and formed their own political movement to continue the party's original goals. Bolsonaro became the party's nominee for the 2018 presidential election and won in both rounds.

History

The PSL was originally founded on 30 October 1994 by businessman Luciano Bivar as a social liberal party. The party was registered on the Superior Electoral Court on 2 June 1998.

At the legislative elections on 6 October 2002, the PSL won 1 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and no seats in the Federal Senate. In 2006, the party won no seats in the Chamber of Deputies or the Federal Senate. In 2010 and 2014, the PSL won 1 seat in the Chamber of Deputies and no seats in the Federal Senate.

In 2015, the PSL underwent a reform led by the internal social liberal wing Livres, with names such as political scientist Fábio Ostermann and journalist Leandro Narloch reinforcing the party's affiliation with social liberal policies. The PSL also supported the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.

On 5 January 2018, former Social Christian politician Jair Bolsonaro became a member of the party, which prompted the Livres wing to leave the party in protest of Bolsonaro's social conservative views. After the exit of Livres, the party followed a national conservative path, changed its colors from purple to the more nationalist blue, yellow and green (the colors of the flag of Brazil) and since then has discussed a name change either to Republicans (Republicanos) or Mobilize (Mobiliza). On 5 March 2018 Bivar stepped down from party presidency and Gustavo Bebbiano was appointed as acting president.

Bolsonaro eventually became the PSL nominee for the 2018 presidential election. In the first round of the election, Bolsonaro exceeded polling forecasts to receive 46% of the popular vote while defeating Workers' Party's Fernando Haddad with the 55% of the popular vote in the second round. Bolsonaro's coattails helped elect 52 deputies and 4 senators from the PSL, which will make it the second largest political party in the next Chamber of Deputies. It also became the largest single party in the legislative assemblies of both Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. On 28 October 2018 Bolsonaro was elected President with 55,13% of the votes.

On 29 October 2018 Bivar was re-appointed as party president.

Organization

Ideology and policies

Since Bolsonaro's entrance in the party, the PSL has changed much of its ideologies, abandoning its former socially liberal policies and keeping its economic liberal policies, supporting privatisation and decentralisation while at the same time adopting socially conservative policies regarding abortion, legalization of marijuana and the teaching of gender identity in schools.

The PSL is anti-communist and its members are prohibited from making alliances with left-wing political parties.

Electoral results

Presidential elections

Legislative elections

Election	Chamber of Deputies				Federal Senate				Role
	% of votes	No. of votes	No. of seats	+/–	% of votes	No. of votes	No. of seats	+/–
2002	0.5	408,512	1 / 513	1	0	N/A	0 / 81	0	In opposition
2006	0.2	190,793	0 / 513	1	0.0	46,542	0 / 81	0	In opposition
2010	0.5	499,963	1 / 513	1	0.3	446,517	0 / 81	0	In opposition
2014	0.83	808,710	1 / 513	0	0	N/A	0 / 81	0	In opposition
2018	11.7	11,457,878	52 / 513	51	11.3	19,413,869	4 / 81	4	Government

See also

• Jair Bolsonaro
• Patriota

References

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