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nameProgressives
native_nameProgressistas
native_name_langpt
logoProgressistas_logo.png
logo_size250px
colorcode
abbreviationPP
presidentCiro Nogueira
founded
registered
mergerProgressive Party
Reform Progressive Party
headquartersSenado Federal, Anexo I, 17º andar, Sl. 1.702, Brasília
newspaperGestão Progressista
think_tankFundação Milton Campos
youth_wingJovens Progressistas
womens_wingMulheres Progressistas
wing1_titleBlack wing
wing1Afro Progressistas
nationalProgressive Union (UPB)
membership_year2022
membership1,293,592
ideology{{ubl
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positionCentre-right
colorsSky blue
Dark blue
Red (secondary)
sloganOportunidades para todos
('Opportunities for all')
blank1_titleElectoral number
blank111
seats1_titleFederal Senate
seats1
seats2_titleChamber of Deputies
seats2
seats3_titleGovernors
seats3
seats4_titleLegislative Assemblies
seats4
seats5_titleMayors
seats5
seats6_titleMunicipal Chambers
seats6
website
countryBrazil
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| name = Progressives | native_name = Progressistas | native_name_lang = pt | logo = Progressistas_logo.png | logo_size = 250px | colorcode = | abbreviation = PP | president = Ciro Nogueira | founded = | registered = | merger = Progressive Party Reform Progressive Party | headquarters = Senado Federal, Anexo I, 17º andar, Sl. 1.702, Brasília | newspaper = Gestão Progressista | think_tank = Fundação Milton Campos | youth_wing = Jovens Progressistas | womens_wing = Mulheres Progressistas | wing1_title = Black wing | wing1 = Afro Progressistas | national = Progressive Union (UPB) | membership_year = 2022 | membership = 1,293,592 | ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap| |Conservative liberalism | position = Centre-right | colors = Sky blue Dark blue Red (secondary) | slogan = Oportunidades para todos ('Opportunities for all') | blank1_title = Electoral number | blank1 = 11 | seats1_title = Federal Senate | seats1 = | seats2_title = Chamber of Deputies | seats2 = | seats3_title = Governors | seats3 = | seats4_title = Legislative Assemblies | seats4 = | seats5_title = Mayors | seats5 = | seats6_title = Municipal Chambers | seats6 = | symbol = | website = | country = Brazil | footnotes = Progressistas (; , PP) is a centre-right political party in Brazil. Founded in 1995 as the Brazilian Progressive Party (), it emerged from parties that were successors to ARENA, the ruling party of the Brazilian military dictatorship. A pragmatist party, and one of the core members of the Centrão bloc, it supported the governments of presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff, Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro. Largely it was the party of the politics of Paulo Maluf, a former governor and mayor of São Paulo. Of all political parties, in corruption investigation Operation Car Wash, the Progressistas had the most convictions.

The party in recent years had fully embraced the right. In the 2018 Brazilian general election, the party supported the candidacy of Geraldo Alckmin. After the election, although they remained neutral in the second round, the party has almost fully supported the policies of Jair Bolsonaro, supporting his candidacy for president in 2022 and voting with him 93% of the time.

In 2025, the party formed the Progressive Union alliance with Brazil Union.

History

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Founded in 1995, as Brazilian Progressive Party (PPB), by the union of:

The party entered in coalition with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party and the Liberal Front Party, supporting President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in the 1998 Brazilian general election.

In the 2002 general election, the party informally supported the candidacy of Ciro Gomes in the first round and formally supported José Serra in the second round.

In 2003, the party re-changed its name to the Progressive Party. PP has also supported the Workers' Party-led government from 2003 to 2015.

At the parliamentary elections, held in October 2006, the party won 42 of the 513 seats in the chamber of deputies, and it has one of the 81 seats in the Senate. At the 2010 elections, PP won 41 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and made gains in the Senate for a total of five seats. It lost an extremely close gubernatorial runoff in Roraima to the PSDB, and won no state governorships.

In the 2010 elections, alliances between moderate and left-leaning parties took place in several places, such as in Bahia, where the PP was part of the PT candidate's coalition, having even nominated its vice governor.  About this type of coalition, the former mayor of São Paulo and former PT member Luísa Erundina declared, still in May 2010, that "It is sad, agonizing to see Maluf's PP with PCdoB. It's all the same*.*"

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Its most well-known politicians are Paulo Maluf, mayor and governor of São Paulo for several terms, Esperidião Amin, former governor of Santa Catarina and senator, and Francisco Dornelles, former minister of Labour and senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro.

The party has from its very beginning shown a tendency for regional division, with the section from Rio Grande do Sul state often threatening with secession, in part due to what is viewed by them as condescendence of the party's national direction towards members involved in corruption scandals, including Paulo Maluf (who has recently been discharged from his post as de facto leader of PP). The national orientation of the party has been one of close alliance with Lula's Workers' Party government (except on issues sensitive to the right wing core of PP, such as taxes), while the section of Rio Grande do Sul once more show a defiant stance in aligning itself more often with the opposition.

The Progressive Party supported the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, splitting its alliance with the Worker's Party.

This party was most affected by the Petrobras corruption scandal, damaging its national popularity.

The party supported the candidacy of Geraldo Alckmin in 2018, but did not endorse a candidate in the second round.

After the election, the party joined a coalition with the Republicanos and the Liberal Party to support Jair Bolsonaro in government.

Ideology

The party has traditionally been, like many right-wing parties in Brazil, one of pragmatism and moderation, being considered a catch-all party—making alliances with both left-wing and right-wing parties, depeding on what's more convenient. The party's main positions in Congress have been that of business interests supporting lower taxation, highlighting those proposals in accordance with other economic growth principles of the left. When allied with the governments of Lula and Dilma, the party supported the Bolsa Familia program in confluence with tax cuts for economic growth.

In more recent years, however, the party has become more stridently national conservative, representing the less religious and less populist conservatism that existed in Brazil before the election of Bolsonaro. The party supported greater economic nationalism than some of its coalition partners and is generally less in support of the military than the Liberal Party. However, in general, the party supports Bolsonarismo, and many of his cabinet members are members or have joined the party.

Notable members

Electoral history

Legislative elections

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ElectionChamber of DeputiesFederal SenateRole in governmentVotes%Seats+/–Votes%Seats+/–1998200220062010201420182022
7,558,60111.35%New9,246,08914.95%New
6,828,3757.81%126,903,5814.49%2
6,662,3097.15%64,228,4315.01%0
6,330,0626.55%19,170,0155.38%4
6,429,7916.61%31,931,7382.16%0
5,480,0675.57%17,529,9014.39%1
8,704,3417.90%107,592,3917.47%2
Sources: Election Resources, Dados Eleitorais do Brasil (1982–2006)
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References

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