New Party (C1000x)

New Party (Partido Novo, NOVO) is a Brazilian political party founded in 2011 and officially registered in 2015. Among the positions of the party, the non-use of public money was highlighted, maintaining itself through donations and contributions from members. According to the party, which says it rejects political labels, its main position is the defense of democracy and individual freedoms, encouraging entrepreneurship and citizen participation in politics, with the State acting in the areas of basic education, health, security, infrastructure and currency preservation. The party's electoral code is 30. The New Party use the color orange as a symbol.

Foundation and registration
The party was founded on February 12, 2011 by 181 citizens from 35 different professions and from ten states of the Federation. According to Amoêdo, in a statement made to Infomoney, the idea of ​​forming a new party against the existing ones is that none of them would defend the ideas of the new party, and that "to attract committed people, willing to change, it would be easier to start from scratch."

The expenses related to the creation of the party, of around five million reais, received a significant contribution from its founder João Amoêdo (4.5 million reais), in addition to important donations from Pedro Moreira Salles (100 thousand reais) and Cecília Sicupira, wife of businessman Carlos Alberto Sicupira. According to Valor Econômico magazine, the party's main financiers "grave around Itaú Unibanco" and include, in addition to Amoêdo and Moreira Salles, the former chairman of the bank's board of directors, Fernão Bracher, and the bank's vice-president, Eduardo Mazzilli de Vassimon, the president of Fundação Itaú Social and former president of Banco Santander Brasil, Fábio Barbosa, the founder and shareholder of Porto Seguro (a company in which Itaú Unibanco has a stake), Jayme Garfinkel, and the former president of Unibanco, Israel Vainboim.

The party collected 497,000 certificates recognized at the notary's office, filing in July 2014 the application for registration with the Superior Electoral Court. On June 26, 2015, the TSE confirmed that there was no duplication in the supporting signatures. On September 15, 2015, the party had its definitive registration approved after presenting 492,414 voter signatures supporting its creation. It also confirmed the foundation of nine state boards (in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Federal District, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondônia and Rio Grande do Norte), another requirement provided for by law.

2018 Presidential Elections
In 2018, the former president of the party João Amoêdo was announced to the presidency of Brazil and Christian Lohbauer to the running mate. On May 23, 2018, NOVO brought the engineer and CEO of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo Fred Luz to the role of marketing the campaign of Amoêdo to the presidency. Amoêdo was in fifth place with almost 3% of the valid votes, behind Geraldo Alckmin and ahead of Marina Silva and Henrique Meirelles.

During the Bolsonaro Administration
In the second round of elections, NOVO declared in a statement that it wouldn't support Bolsonaro, nor Haddad, but emphasized criticism of the Workers' Party (PT), while Zema, then-candidate for governor of Minas Gerais, declared support for Bolsonaro. Shortly after the beginning of the parliamentary term, the then-candidate for the presidency of the Chamber, the then-federal deputy Marcel Van Hattem, from NOVO, stated that the party would maintain its position of independence in relation to the Jair Bolsonaro administration

In an interview with UOL, João Amoêdo also assumed that he had voted for Bolsonaro as an opposition vote to the Workers' Party. In an article written by João Amoêdo himself in the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper shortly after the first round of the 2018 elections, the former candidate stated "I vote against the PT, but not in something I believe". NOVO now has a member. in the government's ministerial team when Ricardo Salles was appointed to the Environment Ministry. Salles was expelled from the party in May 2020. In the note of the party's ethics committee, it is stated that the cause of the expulsion is due to the minister having accepted to be Minister of the Environment at the invitation of President Jair Bolsonaro, in relation to which the New Party takes an independent position, without any prior notice or authorization from the acronym.

In 2021, the party officially positioned itself as opposition to Bolsonaro, which should force members sympathetic to the government to follow the new directive or switch parties. However, the party continued along with Bolsonaro administration on agendas that NOVO believes are important for the country. In June, the party received the affiliation of Fernando Holiday, councilor of São Paulo and former coordinator of Free Brazil Movement (MBL), expelled from the Patriota for criticizing the government.

Ideology
NOVO is a classic liberal party, defending individual freedom, with limitation of the power of the State by the rule of law, the equality of all before the law, the right to property, and, in economic policy, it preaches free enterprise. Some NOVO members adhere to liberal conservatism, combining conservative policies with liberal elements, especially on economic issues, or a branch of political conservatism heavily influenced by economic liberalism.