Last modified: 2003-11-22 by joe mcmillan
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The flag of the PFL (Partido da Frente Liberal) tries to emulate (purportedly)
the Brazilian flag. In my opinion, it does not seem to have that effect.
However, it is a nice flag.
Guillermo Tell Aveledo, 18 September 2000
This major neoliberal party is the second largest in Congress, having won 84
seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 14 in the Senate in the 2002 elections.
Joseph McMillan, 5 November 2002
The PL is a center-right party that took 26 seats in the Chamber of
Deputies and two in the Senate in 2002.
Joseph McMillan, 5 November 2002
President Cardoso's party, a center-left grouping that split from the
PMDB in 1988. It took 71 seats in the lower house and 8 in the upper
at the last elections.
Joseph McMillan, 5 November 2002
Another big party, and still around the center-left area, is the the PTB (Brazilian Labor Party).
The flag is a well-known black-white-red vertical tricolour (with the central stripe wider than the others, at least
that's how it looks in the pictures I found on the web [but see below--Ed.]) with the initials
in black at the center.
Jorge Candeias, 29 April 1999
Despite the name, a center-right party with leftist historical roots.
Joseph McMillan, 16 April 2001
The flag is defined by Article 4 of the party statutes: "The PTB flag is a pennant (flāmula) [sic] composed of three equal vertical stripes, black, white, and red, with the initials PTB in the center, obliquely, in black." The PTD elected 26 deputies