Brazil

Next Parliamentary Elections : 27 October, 2002

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Political Parties:

Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro (PTB)
   Founded: 1981
   address:SLCN 3030 BL Sala 105 Brasilia-DF, 70735-530
   telephone: (061) 226-0477
   Fax: (061)2254757/ 3185918
   E-mail: ptb@org.org.br

Partido Democrático Trabalhista (PDT)
   Founded:1981
   address:AV. Marechal Câmara -160, 4º AND. Ed. Orly-Sl. 417/420/RJ, 20020-080
   telephone: (021) 262-8834 (061) 318-5160
   Fax: (021) 262-8834 (061) 318-5156
   E-mail: redepdt@uol.com.br

Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT)
   Founded:1982
   address: Rua Silveira Martins, 132 - Centro SP
   telephone: (011) 233-1313
   Fax: (011) 222-966( 061) 226-9762
   E-mail: ptbrasil@ax.apc.org

Partido da Frente Liberal (PFL)
   Founded:1986
   address: Senado Federal - Anexo - I - 26º Andar-DF, 70165-900
   telephone:(061) 311-4305
   Fax:(061) 224-1912 /224-6419/318-5146
   E-mail: pfl25@pfl.org.br

Partido Liberal (PL)
   Founded:1988
   address: Câmara dos deputados anexo- I ,Gab. 2608-DF,70160-900
   telephone: (061) 318-5899/ 318-5898
   Fax: (061) 223-9444
   E-mail: plnacional@persocom.com.br

Partido Comunista do Brasil (PC do B)
   Founded:1988
   address: Rua Major Diogo, 834 Bela Vista São Paulo-SP CEP: 01.324-001
   E-mail: pcdobcc@uol.com.br
   telephone:(011) 232-1622
   Fax:(011) 232-4245 (062) 224-6372
   E-mail:

Partido Socialista Brasileiro (PSB)
   Founded:1988
   address:Cam. Dep.Anexo II Bl. Lideranças, Sl. 18 -BSB-DF, 70160-900
   telephone:(061) 318-5198
   Fax:(061)224-8493/ 318-6950/ 318-2104
   E-mail: psb@bauru.net

Partido da social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB)
   Founded:1989
   address: SCN Q. 4 Bl. B - Torre C Sala 303B Centro Empresarial - Varig - DF, 70710-500
   telephone: (061) 328-0045
   Fax:(011)328-2660/ 328-2120
   E-mail: tucano@psdb.org.br

Partido da Reconstrução Nacional (PRN)
   Founded: 1990
   address: SCS. Ed. Bandeirantes Quadra 6 Bl. A Loja 161 - DF, 70300-910
   telephone: (061) 226-3000 / 988-2258
   Fax: (061) 224-3774
   E-mail:

Partido Social Democrático (PSD)
   Founded:1990
   address: Rua Moaci, 329 – Bairro de Moema / SãoPaulo, 04083-000
   telephone: (011) 539-2683
   Fax:(011) 886-6585 (061)318-5736 / 318-2736
   E-mail:

Partido Social Cristão (PSC)
   Founded:1990
   address:R. Pouso Alegre 1390 -Floresta -BH/MG,31015-030
   telephone:(031) 467-1390
   Fax:(031) 467-6522/467-6611 (061)226-4584 / 226-4778/
   E-mail: gms.mkt@uol.com.br

Partido da Mobilização Nacional(PMN)
   Founded:1990
   address: Rua Bernardo Guimarães N° 1298 Apt 402 BH - MG, 30140-080
   telephone:(011) 3120-2669 / 964-3634
   Fax:
   E-mail: pmn@bitsnet.com.br

Partido na Reedificação da Ordem Nacional (Prona)
   Founded:1990
   address: Rua Visconde de Piraja, 414, Grupo 603 -Ipanema - RJ, 22410-002
   telephone: (021) 267-0432 / 267-6790
   Fax:(011) 267-0432 (061) 226-1837
   E-mail:

Partido Republicano Progressista (PRP)
   Founded:1991
   address:Rua Constantino Cabral, 631- J. Vetorazzo- S.J. Rio Preto/SP, 15040-310
   telephone: (017) 236-3397
   Fax: (017) 632-2087
   E-mail:

Popular Partido Socialista (PPS)-antigo PCB
   Founded:1992
   address: C. NAC. ALA Senator.T.Villela GAB.5 anexo II
   telephone: (061) 311-2161 / 318-5196
   Fax: (061) 323-6389
   E-mail:

Partido Verde (PV)
   Founded:1994
   address: Rua dos Pinheiros, 812 – Pinheiros São Paulo, 05422-001
   telephone: (011) 883-1722
   Fax: (021) 5246875
   E-mail:pv@pv.org.br

Partido Trabalhista do Brasil (PT do B)
   Founded: 1994
   address: SCS - Quadra 6 nº 240 - Ed. Carioca 5º andar
   telephone:(061) 226-6269 / 322-7452 / 984-2584
   Fax:(061) 2238594 (011)605-0543 / 607-2741
   E-mail:

Partido Progressista do Brasil (PPB)
   Founded:1995
   address: Anexo I do Sen. Federal, 17o andar -Brasília/DF, 70165-900
   telephone:(061) 311-3041/ 323-7821
   Fax: (061) 226-8192
   E-mail: webmaster@ppb.org.br

Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado (PSTU)
   Founded: 1995
   address: R. Loefgreen, 909 - B.Saude - SP, 04040-020
   telephone: (011) 575-6093
   Fax:
   E-mail:pstunet@pstu.org.com

Partido Comunista Brasileiro
   Founded:1996
   address: Praia de Botafogo nº 114 apto 904 - Botafogo - RJ, 22250-040
   telephone:(021) 551-7379
   Fax: (021) 546-0033
   E-mail:pcb@axapc.or

Partido Social Trabalhista (PST)
   Founded:1996
   address: AV. Ipiranga 1071, 11º And. Conj. 1101 a 1103-SP, 01039000
   telephone: (011) 228-7411/ 981-9917 / 912-2042
   Fax:(011) 530-3003
   E-mail:

Partido Renovador Trabalhista Brasileiro (PRTB)
   Founded: 1996
   address: R. Maestro Chiafarelli - 631-Jard.Paulista -SP, 01432-030
   telephone: (011) 885-5497 / 982-6043
   Fax: (011) 887-4329
   E-mail: prtb@prtb.org.br

Partido da Solidariedade Nacional (PSN)
   Founded:1997
   address:CLN 315 – Bloco B – Sala 213 - Asa Norte-DF, 70774-520
   telephone:(061) 347-9516 / 982-3174
   Fax: (061) 349-6861
   E-mail:

Partido Social Democrata Cristão (PSDC)- Antigo PDC
   Founded:1997
   address: Av. Padre Pereira de Andrade - 758 -J. Boacava-Pinheiro/SP
   telephone:(011)-832-7502
   Fax: (011)-832-9263
   E-mail:psdc@psdc.org.br

Partido da Causa Operária (PCO)
   Founded: 1997
   address:Rua Apotribu No 111 - SP, 04312-000
   telephone: (011) 275-3717
   Fax: (011) 275-3717
   E-mail: webmaster@pco.org.br

Partido Trabalhista Nacional (PTN)
   Founded:1997
   address: Rua Antônio de Barros no 2391, Conj. 33, 3º and. Tatuape/SP, 03401-001
   telephone:(011) 522-5601
   Fax: (011)522-6274 /815-3322
   E-mail:

Partido dos Aposentados da Nação (PNA)
   Founded:1998
   address:Rua Republica Argentina 608.301 - A - Sion/B.H /MG, 30315-490
   telephone: (031) 221-1924¾
   Fax: (031) 221-1924
   E-mail:pan@nanet.com.br

Partido Social Liberal (PSB)
   Founded: 1998
   address: SBS. Q.2 Bl S. Sl. 510/511- BSB- Ed. Empire Center, 70070-904
   telephone: (061) 225-2680
   Fax: (061) 325-7491 (081)446-1086
   E-mail:

Partido Geral dos Trabalhadores (PGT)
   Founded: 1998
   address:Rua Bento Freitas, 341 2o Andar Sl. 21/22 - Vila Buarque. SP, 01220-000
   telephone:(011) 256-5525 /231-3079
   Fax: (011) 256-5525
   E-mail:

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Articles:

“THAT is the woman I admire,” Roseana Sarney told an interviewer last year, speaking of Margaret Thatcher. Just as Mrs Thatcher rose rapidly to become Britain's first female prime minister, so a spectacular surge in the opinion-poll ratings for Ms Sarney, the governor of the north-eastern state of Maranhao, gives her a chance of becoming Brazil's first woman president in next October's election.

Her entry into the campaign is also an unexpected complication for President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. He hopes to anoint as the candidate of his loose centre-right coalition one of several contenders from his own Social Democratic party (PSDB). But to preserve his own authority, he has delayed his decision. As a result, it could yet fall to Ms Sarney, a member of the Liberal Front (PFL), the coalition's most conservative member, to take on Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the perennial candidate of the Workers' Party (PT), the left-wing opposition, who has led the opinion polls for more than two years.

Though Mr Cardoso is said to get on well with Ms Sarney, she is hardly his natural successor. The daughter of Jose Sarney, a conservative populist who was Brazil's president from 1985-89, she is a scion of one of the traditional political dynasties of the backward north-east.

In August, her party decided to make Ms Sarney the star of its commercials. The aim seems to have been to persuade Mr Cardoso that she would make an ideal running-mate for the PSDB candidate. But her rise has exceeded all expectations: in one poll, her support moved from 11% in August to 19% in October. Another, telephone, poll this month put Ms Sarney at 26%, two points behind Mr da Silva. She has started to appear on magazine covers, including that of Veja, Brazil's leading news weekly.

By contrast, the leading Social Democratic contenders, Jose Serra, the health minister, and Tasso Jereissati, the reformist governor of Ceara, another north-eastern state, barely figure in the polls. They trail three hopefuls from the soft-left, Ciro Gomes, another former governor of Ceara, Anthony Garotinho, the governor of Rio de Janeiro, and Itamar Franco, an eccentric former president.

Mr Cardoso has been waiting for the economy, and thus his own popularity, to recover, making it easier for him to impose his decision on his fractious alliance. But with the economy again flirting with recession, he cannot be certain of rallying the whole coalition behind his choice. Indeed, since Ms Sarney's father is now a senator for the catch-all Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), the coalition's third main member, she is arguably in as good a position as the president to do that.

Despite her conservative background, the polls suggest that the public, paradoxically, regard her as a “third way” alternative to the government and the Workers' Party, says Ricardo Guedes of Sensus, a polling firm. A similar image helped Messrs Garotinho, Gomes and Franco to rise in the polls, only to fall back under closer scrutiny of their record and policies.

Will Ms Sarney suffer the same fate? Three-quarters of voters say they trust female politicians more than male ones. Her propaganda portrays her as a mix of glamorous grandmother and Iron Lady. In her two terms as governor of Brazil's poorest state, she has pruned the bureaucracy, while also cutting infant mortality and raising school enrolments.

But critics will not lack ammunition. Maranhao's social indicators still lag. It is not hard to portray Ms Sarney as a cronyist, like her father. She has given important state jobs to her husband and other relatives. Much of the state's publicity budget goes to the local media owned by the Sarneys. Another doubt concerns Ms Sarney's health: though only 48, she has survived a dozen operations, some for cancer.

Mr Cardoso is still determined that a PSDB candidate will lead the alliance into the election, reckons Mr Guedes. Ms Sarney's sudden rise owes much to the power of television, a well-known name and an attractive face in a huge country where most politicians are barely known outside their local fiefs. But unless Mr Cardoso quickly makes up his mind, and gives his chosen candidate a similar propaganda boost, he might yet find that Ms Sarney's momentum has become unstoppable

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