The Brazil of Hope Federation ( pt-BR, Federação Brasil da Esperança) or FE Brasil is a federation of Brazilian parties formed by the Workers' Party (PT),

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(PCdoB) and

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(PV) on 18 April 2022 in preparation for the 2022 general election.

History

Background

In 2017, the

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approved a constitutional amendment which abolished legislative coalitions and established an

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to receive party subsidies. The electoral reform aimed to decrease the

effective number of parties The effective number of parties is a concept introduced by Laakso and Taagepera (1979) which provides for an adjusted number of political parties in a country's party system. The idea behind this measure is to count parties and, at the same time, ...

in Brazil. After the reform, smaller parties wanted to create a new mechanism to help them win seats, with many proposing

single non-transferable vote Single non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used to elect multiple winners. It is a generalization of first-past-the-post, applied to multi-member districts with each voter casting just one vote. Unlike FPTP, which is a single-winn ...

. In 2021, it was approved the creation of party federations, based on the Broad Front model. After the federations approved, there began talks to form left-of-center federations, which began official talks to form a federation between the Workers' Party, the

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(PSB), the

Socialism and Liberty Party The Socialism and Liberty Party ( pt-BR, Partido Socialismo e Liberdade , PSOL ) is a left-wing political party in Brazil. The party describes itself as socialist and democratic. The party leader is Juliano Medeiros and the federal deputies I ...

(PSOL), the Communist Party of Brazil and the Green Party in late 2021. PSOL quickly left the negotiations, preferring to focus on a federation with the

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(REDE). Negotiations between PT and PSB got into advanced stages, with a broad majority of PSB politicians wanting to join the PT-lead federation, but PSB withdrew from the federation because of disagreements over São Paulo, especially due to the gubernatorial and mayoral candidates.

Formation

In April 2022, PT, PCdoB and PV approved a federation and subsequently sent it to the

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. It was approved and the federation was officially formed.

Composition

The federation consists of three (3) political parties:

Electoral history

Legislative elections

References

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