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The Communist Party of Brazil decided not to change its name, but to change its strategy for the 2020 elections by avoiding using the term “communist”, which has been identified as being in decline in Brazilian society according to surveys.
The PCdoB will not change its name, but will adopt a “fantasy name” during the 2020 elections. The party intends to campaign throughout Brazil as the “65 movement”, thus avoiding using the term communist, which has been highlighted in internal surveys as being frowned upon by Brazilian society in recent years.
Founded as the Communist Party of Brazil, the PCdoB has held conferences and commissioned surveys to assess the possibility of changing its name. In principle, however, party leaders are against it.
The party, closely linked to the PT since the redemocratization, intends to adopt a different strategy in the 2020 elections, fighting to win important city halls in the country. The defeated candidate for vice president in the last elections, Manuela D'Ávila should be launched as a candidate for mayor of Porto Alegre. The party is still evaluating other names considered strong for São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and northeastern capitals.
Part of the PCdoB leadership argues that the party needs to have its own candidate for president in 2022.
Communist term on the decline
The adoption of the fantasy name “Movimento 65” for the 2020 elections is a strategy of the PCdoB after research commissioned by the party indicated that the term “communist” is frowned upon by Brazilians, especially after 2016, when Dilma Rousseff was impeached.
According to the Federal Constitution, it is forbidden for a political party in Brazil to campaign for communism. The text, however, allows acronyms to include political ideology in their names.
Created in 1958 after a split from the PCB, the PCdoB was refounded in 1962 by then congressman João Amazonas, who was president of the party for 40 years. Prevented from existing after AI-2, the PCdoB kept its name after redemocratization, but since then it has not launched its own candidate for president.
