Avante (political party)

Avante Avante
President	Luis Tibé
Founded	1989
Split from	Brazilian Labour Party
Headquarters	Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Membership	185,473[1]
Ideology	Populism Social democracy Third Way
Political position	Centre
National affiliation	Change Brazil
Colours	Green, Yellow, Blue, & White
TSE Identification Number	70
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies	3 / 513
Seats in the Senate	0 / 81
Local government	535 / 56,810
Website
avante70.org.br
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Avante (Portuguese: Avante, AVANTE) is a minor populist centrist Brazilian political party.

It was founded in 1989 by dissidents of the Brazilian Labour Party as the Labour Party of Brazil (Partido Trabalhista do Brasil, PTdoB) and is a minor force in Brazilian politics. In 1998, the party chose João de Deus Barbosa as its Presidential candidate; he received 200,000 votes (0.2%). In the legislative election of 2006, the party elected one representative to the Federal Chamber, and had 0.3% of the national votes (311,000 votes) for the parliament. In the legislative election of 2010 this increased to three representatives and 0.7% of the national vote (642,422 votes). At the 2014 election, the party won two seats and 0.85% of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies; it gained one seat following the defection of Silvio Costa from the Social Christian Party. The party has 534 local councillors and controls 26 mayoralties. PTdoB voted in favor of the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.

In 2017, PTdoB changed its name to AVANTE, Portuguese for Forward. For the Brazilian general election of 2018 AVANTE joined the coalition Sovereign Brazil, together with the Democratic Labour Party, in support of PTD candidate Ciro Gomes.

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