Movimento Alternativa Socialista

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"We can stop the rigid austerity policy", poster of the MAS in Coimbra in November 2015

Movimento Alternativa Socialista (MAS), in English “Movement Socialist Alternative”, is a small Portuguese Trotskyist party. It emerged from the union of the student alliance "Ruptura" and the former small party Frente de Esquerda Revolucionária (FER).

Before 2011, the student alliance "Ruptura" was a wing of the socialist party Bloco de Esquerda . In December 2011 she left the BE due to political differences. Together with the small party Frente de Esquerda Revoluciónaria , planning began for a joint party called “Movimento Alternativa Socialista”.

The first attempt at recognition as a party by the constitutional court , which has jurisdiction in Portugal, failed in April 2013 because the party statutes were considered unconstitutional. Only after changing the statutes - this involved details of the party's internal jurisdiction - the court recognized the party in July 2013.

The party represents decidedly left, Trotskyist positions. According to the party statutes, the party fights against “capitalist exploitation and all forms of oppression of human beings, for a democratic, socialist system, for the power of the working class that makes a transition to socialism and communism possible. By socialism we mean a society in which power is exercised exclusively in a democratic way by the workers, by communism [we mean] a society without classes and estates. ”The first MAS party conference took place from January 24th to 26th, 2014 .

The first election the party ran in was the 2014 European elections . It won 12,442 votes (0.38 percent) and could not win a mandate.

In the 2019 European elections in Portugal , the party received 6,641 votes or 0.28%, but no mandate.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria João Antunes: ACÓRDÃO Nº 232/2013. Tribunal Constitucional de Portugal, April 24, 2013, accessed June 22, 2014 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Filipa Dias Mendes: Tribunal Constitucional recusa registo do Movimento de Alternativa Socialista como partido. In: Público. March 5, 2013, accessed June 22, 2014 (Portuguese).
  3. ^ Catarina Sarmento e Castro: ACÓRDÃO N.º 458/2013. Tribunal Constitucional de Portugal, July 29, 2013, accessed June 22, 2014 (Portuguese).
  4. ^ A b Estatutos do Movimentos Alternativa Socialista. (pdf) January 26, 2014, p. 3 , accessed on June 22, 2014 (Portuguese, see “Artigo 1º - Definição de objectivos”).
  5. ↑ Official election results 2014 (port.)
  6. ↑ Official election results 2019 (port.)