The Popular Representation Party ( pt, Partido de Representação Popular, PRP) was a political party in

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. The PRP was founded by

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on 26 September 1945. He reassembled the former members of the

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, and was ideologically aligned with the nationalist right. It always obtained representation in the

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and had a greater presence in the south. Salgado ran for

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in the 1955 election, won by

Juscelino Kubitschek Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (; 12 September 1902 – 22 August 1976), also known by his initials JK, was a prominent Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. His term was marked by economic prosp ...

. He won around 8% of the vote. Like all parties of that era, it was abolished by the military regime shortly after the coup of 1964. Most of its members joined the party of the military junta, the

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