Brazilian Democratic Movement Movimento Democrático Brasileiro | |
|---|---|
| President | Baleia Rossi |
| Secretary-General | Jorge Caruso |
| Founded | 4 December 1965 (original MDB) 30 June 1981 (registered as PMDB) 19 December 2017 (altered its name back to MDB) |
| Dissolved | 20 December 1979 (original MDB) |
| Headquarters | Câmara dos Deputados - Presidência do MDB, Ed. Principal sala T4 - Esplanada dos Ministérios Brasília |
| Ideology | Big tent Populism Centrism Third way Factions: Economic liberalism Economic nationalism Social conservatism Historical: Democratization |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right Historical: Centre to centre-left |
| Regional affiliation | COPPPAL |
| Colours | Main: Green Secondary: Yellow, red and black |
| TSE Identification Number | 15 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 34 / 513 |
| Federal Senate | 12 / 81 |
| Governorships | 7 / 27 |
| State Assemblies | 147 / 1,024 |
| Mayors | 1,022 / 5,570 |
| City Councillors | 7,825 / 56,810 |
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The Brazilian Democratic Movement (Portuguese: Movimento Democrático Brasileiro, MDB) is a Brazilian centrist political party. When they were founded, they were the opposition to the Brazilian military government.
Social liberals and social democrats broke with the party in 1988 to form the Brazilian Social Democracy Party.
Mr Temer, from the centre-right MDB party, took over the Brazilian presidency in August 2016 following the impeachment of leftist Dilma Rousseff, a process in which he played a key role.