Thus emboldened, the centrist Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement has secured a second congressional inquiry, into the financial system.

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He hopes to rectify this by bringing in the Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, a large centrist group, but that may not happen soon.

ECONOMIST: Reforming Brazil

More dangerous is discontent in the president's own Workers' Party and its biggest ally, the Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, to which Mr Temer belongs.

ECONOMIST: Politics in Brazil

To add to Mr Franco's smouldering resentment, his quixotic effort to run for the presidency against Mr Cardoso last year was squashed by government supporters in his catch-all Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

The Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, a ramshackle concoction of regional political barons that is the coalition's biggest force, is trying to secure the presidencies of both houses of Congress, which are being contested at the moment.

ECONOMIST: Politics in Brazil

On May 24th all but one of the 73 lower-house deputies of the catch-all Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), the PT's main coalition partner, voted for an amendment to a new Forestry Code to grant an amnesty for illegal logging before 2008.

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