The Christian Labour Party (Partido Trabalhista Cristão; PTC) is a christian

Christian

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-conservative political party

Political party

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 in Brazil

Brazil

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The party was founded in 1985 as Youth Party (Partido da Juventude, PJ) by Daniel Tourinho, a brazilian lawyer. In 1989 the party is renamed National Reconstruction Party (Partido da Reconstrução Nacional, PRN) and Fernando Collor de Mello

Fernando Collor de Mello

Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello was the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his trial of impeachment by the Brazilian Senate...

 was elected president by this party.

After Collor's impeachment

Impeachment

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, in 1992, the party suffered a deep crisis and eventually changed its name to Partido Trabalhista Cristão, in 2000.

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)