Free Brazil Movement (C1000x)

The Free Brazil Movement (MBL) is a Brazilian political movement that defends economic liberalism and republicanism, founded in 2014. In it's manifesto, they cited 5 objectives: "free and independent press, economic freedom, separation of powers, free and suitable elections and an end to direct and indirect subsidies for dictatorships ".

According to the newspaper The Economist, the group is made up of adherents of Thatcherism and was founded "to promote free market responses to the country's problems". For the newspaper El País, despite they appearance, the movement's action is eminently anti-Workers' Party, an aspect that has been repeatedly noticed. The movement is positioned to the right-wing of the traditional political spectrum. Formed mostly by young people under 30, it's members are known for their incisive speeches, being compared by Exame magazine to a startup that was born to make protests. According to Época magazine, in the protests of 16 August 2015, Kim Kataguiri and Fernando Holiday, two leaders of the movement, were received by the participating population as stars of Brazilian politics.

In the 2018 general elections, MBL elected 2 of its main members; Kim Kataguiri as federal deputy for São Paulo and Arthur do Val state deputy for São Paulo. In their campaigns, they declared support for candidate Jair Bolsonaro. However, after being elected, when they saw that their support for Bolsonaro was not returned with money, they began to criticize and break support for Bolsonaro.

In the 2020 municipal elections, they elected Fernando Holiday as councilor for São Paulo city and deputy Arthur do Val ran for mayor of the capital of São Paulo, in which he lost and took 5th place in the election.

After the political-economic progression that the Bolsonaro administration was experiencing, Kim Kataguiri and Arthur do Val returned to support the president in 2022. In the elections of the same year, Kim Kataguiri was re-elected federal deputy, despite losing 256 thousand votes, while Arthur do Val ran the elections for governor of the state of São Paulo and took 7th place in the elections, thus giving up his political career.

On 11 December 2024, the movement was extinguished.