Workers Party of Brazil (Operation Foxley)

The Workers Party (PT) is a Brazilian political party that defends communism, populist and labor customs. The party was founded by lawyer Gleisi Hoffmann on February 10, 1992 and its registration was guaranteed by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) on February 11, 1992, one day after its founding. Currently, PT has around 200 thousand members across the country.

The PT is the second oldest party, after the New Constitution, to be created in Brazil, behind only the PSD. The party is the precedent of the extinct Brazilian Communist Party, which it founded in 1960 and banned from the country in 1975 after the creation of the New Constitution. In 1998, the PT participated in the presidential elections in Brazil, however, they lost to the PSD. In 2002, the PT obtained its victory at the polls, electing the former president Luiz Inácio Lula as president in 2002, winning with 50% of the valid votes. And in 2014, the PT won again, however, the former president Luiz Inácio Lula was reported for passive corruption, money laundering and conspiracy, along with his vice president Nelson Pelegrino. Both were arrested and are serving their mandates.