Act ( pt, Agir), formerly named National Reconstruction Party ( pt, Partido da Reconstrução Nacional; PRN) and Christian Labour Party ( pt, Partido Trabalhista Cristão; PTC), is a
political party
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in
Brazil
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.
The party was founded in 1985 as the Youth Party (''Partido da Juventude'', PJ) by Daniel Tourinho, a Brazilian lawyer. In 1989 the party was renamed National Reconstruction Party.
Fernando Collor de Mello
Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (; born 12 August 1949) is a Brazilian politician who served as the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his impeachment trial by the Brazilian Senate. Collor ...
represented the party in the
1989 Brazilian presidential election
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, the country's first
direct election
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since the
1964 Brazilian coup d'état
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, which followed a redemocratization process started in the 1980s. Collor was elected president and took office in 1990. The party carried out a platform of encouraging free trade, opening Brazil's market to imports, privatizing state-run companies, and attempting to reduce Brazil's rampant
hyperinflation
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by way of the Plano Collor (''Collor Plan''), which significantly reduced inflation rates in 1991, but was followed by a renewed and persistent, though smaller uptick in 1992. Inflation continued rising until the 1994
Plano Real
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influence peddling
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charges in 1992, the party lost suffered a deep confidence crisis, lost all federal representation and eventually changed its name to Christian Labour Party (''Partido Trabalhista Cristão'', PTC) in 2000.
In 2016, Collor, elected senator in 2007, re-joined PTC, which thus regained federal parliamentary representation. He left in 2019 to join the
Republican Party of the Social Order
The Republican Party of the Social Order (Portuguese: ''Partido Republicano da Ordem Social'', ''PROS'') is a political party in Brazil, founded in 2010, and officially recognized in 2013.
In 2022, the party supported the pre-candidacy of Lula da Silva for the
2022 Brazilian general election
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