Partido Social Cristão
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Social Christian Party
Partido Social Cristão |
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| President | Everaldo Pereira |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Headquarters | Rio de Janeiro and Brasília, Brazil |
| Membership | 421,790 |
| Ideology |
Conservatism Social conservatism Economic liberalism Christian democracy |
| Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
| Colours | Green & white |
| TSE Identification Number | 20 |
| Seats in the Chamber of Deputies |
13 / 513
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| Seats in the Senate |
1 / 81
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| Local government |
1,431 / 56,810
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| Website | |
| http://www.psc.org.br/ | |
The Social Christian Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Cristão, PSC) is a conservative political party in Brazil.
At the legislative elections, 2010, PSC obtained 12 seats in the chamber of deputies and kept this number at 2014 legislative elections.
The party was founded in 1985, as a centrist, Christian democratic party. The party supported the winning candidature of Fernando Collor de Mello in the presidential election of 1989, and in 1990 the party winning the election of the government of Alagoas, the home state of president Collor. The party, however, turned against the president when the corruption scandals involving him and his campaign chief PC Farias. The party supported the Impeachment of Fernando Collor. However, from 1994, the party suffered a great decline: Its candidates often ends the presidential elections in the bottom positions, ahead only from far-left parties which originated themselves from rebel wings of the Workers Party with null popular support, and don't get more than 3 representatives elected in the three subsequent elections.
2006 marked a inflexion point in the party: Ratinho Junior, the son of the popular TV show host Ratinho, joined the party and ran for the Brazilian Chamber of deputies. The party make significant electoral gains in his home state of Paraná thanks to Ratinho's influence. The party won 9 seats in the Chamber, compare to 1 in 2002. With the support of Workers Party and the joining of Marco Feliciano, the party made further gains in 2010, being able to elect 17 representatives.
In 2013, the party gained national attention when Feliciano was selected to head the Human Rights commission. The selection cause outrage in some sectors of Brazilian media and society, because in the past Feliciano made declarations which was considered as racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-catholic and against religions of African origin. Despite the great campaign against him, which had violent protests and even blocking the functioning of the commission, Feliciano did not give up the presidency of the commission, fulfilling his mandate until 2014.
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