Partido Socialismo e Liberdade
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| Party leader | Luiz Araújo |
| founding | July 6, 2004 |
| Headquarters | Brasília |
| Alignment | New Left , Socialism , Democratic Socialism |
| Colours) | Red, yellow, orange and purple |
| Number of members | 186,661 (April 2020) |
| Website | www.psol50.org.br |
The Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL, German Party for Socialism and Freedom ) is a left, socialist party in Brazil .
founding
The PSOL was founded in June 2004 after four left-wing politicians were expelled from the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) by President Lula in December 2003 for rejecting the constitutional amendment to what they considered to be a neoliberal pension reform . The four excluded are Heloísa Helena (Senator, Alagoas ), Babá (MP, Pará ), João Fontes (MP, Sergipe , has since left the party) and Luciana Genro (MP, Rio Grande do Sul ), who since the inauguration of Lula and the PT had criticized their policies as neoliberal, anti-socialist and as a surrender to the right and the IMF. The excluded MPs were joined by a minority of the left PT wing, such as the Movimento Esquerda Socialista (MES) , Corrente Socialista dos Trabalhadores (CST) and Liberdade e Revolução , independent left organizations such as Movimento Terra, Trabalho e Liberdade (MTL) , well-known left-wing intellectuals such as Milton Temer , Carlos Nelson Coutinho , João Machado and Francisco de Oliveira , a number of former members of other left-wing parties such as the PCdoB and PSTU, and hitherto unorganized people.
The PSOL accuses Lula and the PT of having betrayed their previous socialist principles and of establishing themselves in capitalism instead of wanting to overcome it.
elections
The PSOL could not yet take part in the local elections in autumn 2004 because it had not yet collected the necessary 438,000 support signatures (this goal has since been achieved). Furthermore, the PSOL has a not inconsiderable influence in the trade union umbrella organization CUT - there especially among teachers, the landless organization MST and in the intellectual life of Brazil. In the political debate, the PSOL is attacked by the press, the PT and also by parts of the PT left as ultra -left and irresponsible, while some other radical left, such as the PSTU, attacked it as an opportunist electoral party.
In March 2005, Geraldo Mesquita (Senator, Acre ), who was previously a member of the PSB , joined the PSOL, and in September 2005 five other previous PT MPs joined the PSOL: Ivan Valente and Orlando Fantazzini (both São Paulo ), Chico Alencar ( Rio de Janeiro ), Maria José Maninha ( DF ) and João Alfredo ( Ceará ), at the same time the Ação Popular Socialista, which had remained in the PT, joined the PSOL. For the 2006 presidential elections, the PSOL joined forces with the PSTU and the PCB to form the Frente de Esquerda (“Left Front”), and Heloísa Helena and the economist César Benjamin were elected as candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency respectively .
In the presidential elections in 2006 Heloísa Helena achieved 6.85 percent of the vote, the result of the party in the parliamentary elections taking place at the same time was more modest with 1.2 percent and three seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
In the 2010 presidential election , the PSOL was represented by the political activist Plínio de Arruda Sampaio , who only received 0.9 percent of the vote. In the election to the Senate, which took place at the same time, the party won an additional mandate (now two), while its number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies remained constant at three.
The party also took part in the 2014 elections , this time with Luciana Genro as the presidential candidate. It got the fourth most votes with 1.55%. The party was able to increase the number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies by two to five, but lost one of the two seats in the Senate.
In the 2018 presidential election , PSOL ran with the candidate duo Guilherme Boulos / Sônia Guajajara . Boulos clearly missed the runoff election with 0.58% of the vote.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tribunal Superior Eleitoral : Estatísticas de eleitorado - Filiados. Retrieved May 31, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).