With Brazil’s impeachment vote growing closer by the day, it’s easy to get lost in a maze of dozens of political parties — their acronyms and leaders — all of which will have a say in the future of President Dilma Rousseff’s mandate.
For starters, there are 594 seats in Congress shared between 25 parties. Some of them, like Rousseff’s Workers’ Party; its ruling coalition partner, the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party; and the main opposition Brazil Social Democracy Party, are very large, deeply entrenched in Brazil’s society, and affiliated with some of the country’s most prominent politicians. The rest of Congress, or 378 seats, is made up of a motley crew of more than 20 parties with views ranging from Marxism to liberalism.
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