THE POLITICAL PARTIES
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7 phases in political parties' history - The history of the Brazilian political parties had seven phases. The first phase was the monarchic, which began in 1837.

The provincial rebellions during the Regency (1831-1840) caused the formation of two big groups, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party, which dominated the Brazilian political life until the end of the Empire. The rise of the Progressive Party and the foundation, in 1870, of the Republican Party completed the political picture of the Empire.

The second phase, which took place from 1889 to 1930, during the First Republic, had provincial parties. The attempts to organize national parties were frustrated, e.g., the attempt by Francisco Glicério, with the Federal Republican Party, and by Pinheiro Machado, with the Conservative Republican Party.