During the 2002 presidential elections, the Brazilian Workers' Party economic program was charged by the opposition as a set of populist left-wing policies that would destabilize the Brazilian economy. However, Lula da Silva continued his predecessor's policies, the same his party denounced as radical Neoliberalism some years before. This paper discusses the process of ideological convergence to Neoliberalism experienced by Brazilian political parties between 1990 and 2009. We analysed the changes on electors and politicians self-positioning in a left-right Likert-scale and their preference for macroeconomic policy. The results show that all parties moved to the right, although their spatial distance remained unchanged. We suggest that self-identifying as left or right-wing has little correlation with the preference for economic policies. Rather, political ideology is determined by a supra-ideological process of convergence to a specific economic ideology that has its policies already predetermined.
