Lulism is a political ideology used to describe the alignment of segments of the society that were previously hostile to the Brazilian Workers' Party and social movements, behind the political forces led by former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a new electoral configuration formed in 2006. It is a process of controlled reformism and limited structural change in Brazil which focused on the poorest sections of society. The subproletariat, who has always kept themselves away from Lula, accepted in large scale his candidacy after the first term of his presidency, at the same time that the middle-class moved away from him. The explanation would be on a new ideological configuration that mixes leftwing and rightwing elements. The rhetoric and the praxis, which were able to unite the maintenance of stability and the distributive action of the state, are the origins of the formation of lulism. Although essentially different, it shares some characteristics with Chavism and Kirchnerism.