Independent Ecology a registered party or the word "Independent". Independent Ecology Independent Ecology is a description once used in British politics to denote a form of non-party affiliation. It was used to designate a green politician as was independent of any political party, particularly of the Ecology Party before its transformation into the Green Party. Since the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998 came into force, a candidate for election can no longer be described as an "Independent Ecology" on a ballot paper, as the 1998 Act prohibits any description which could cause confusion with a registered political party. In practice, the
Avante (political party) representatives and 0.7% of the national vote (642,422 votes). At the 2014 election, the party won two seats and 0.85% of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies; it gained one seat following the defection of from the Social Christian Party. The party has 534 local councillors and controls 26 mayoralties. PTdoB voted in favor of the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. In 2017, PTdoB changed its name to AVANTE, Portuguese for Forward. For the Brazilian general election of 2018 AVANTE joined the coalition "Sovereign Brazil", together with the Democratic Labour Party, in support of PTD candidate Ciro Gomes. Gomes obtained