Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado
| Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado | |
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| Party leader | José Maria de Almeida |
| founding | September 30, 1993 |
| Headquarters | São Paulo |
| Alignment | Socialism , Marxism , Trotskyism |
| Colours) | Red and yellow |
| Number of members | 15,823 (May 2020) |
| International connections | Trotskyist Group - Fourth International |
| Website | www.pstu.org.br |
The Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado ( PSTU , German United Socialist Workers Party ) is established in 1993, left, Trotskyite - Socialist Party in Brazil .
In the last presidential election in Brazil in 2018 , her presidential candidate Vera Lúcia reached eleventh place with 0.05% of the vote.
history
After the splits within the Fourth International , left-wing extremists and militant groups had formed in South America in the 1960s. The origins of the PSTU can be found all the way back to 1972. Under the auspices of the Argentine Nahuel Moreno was International Workers League was formed. This form of Trotskyism and Morenism also found supporters in Brazil. The Movimento Convergência Socialista (CS) movement was founded in 1978 and later went along with the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) and the Fora Collor when President Fernando Collor de Mello was impeached in 1992 . The later Corrente Socialista dos Trabalhadores (CST), a Marxist-revolutionary organization, the PSTU and the Movimento Esquerda Socialista (MES) emerged from the Convergência Socialista .
In the preliminary registration of December 17, 1992 with the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (Supreme Electoral Court), the party called Partido Revolucionário dos Trabalhadores (PRT, Revolutionary Party of Workers ). It was registered under its current name on December 30, 1993 and officially recognized on December 19, 1995. It bears the number 16 on ballot papers. Under Brazilian conditions it is a very small party and was initially only able to form coalitions.
Electoral successes
In the presidential elections in 1994 she did not run with her own candidates, but formed an electoral alliance with PT, PSB , PCdoB , PPS , PV in support of Lula da Silva , who was defeated by Fernando Henrique Cardoso . In 1998, José Maria de Almeida, known as Zé Maria, stood for the first time and achieved 0.3% of the vote, most recently in the 2014 presidential elections, where Zé Maria only received 0.09% of the vote. After Zé Maria had run four times without success, Vera Lúcia Salgado was nominated as a presidential candidate in 2018 .
| year | Presidential candidate |
Vice presidential candidate |
coalition | be right | % | space |
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| 1994 | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ( PT ) | Aloizio Mercadante (PT) | PT, PSB , PCdoB , PPS , PV and PSTU | 17.122.127 | 27.04 | 2. |
| 1998 | José Maria de Almeida (PSTU) | José Galvão de Lima | without a coalition | 202,659 | 0.30 | 7th |
| 2002 | José Maria de Almeida (PSTU) | Dayse de Oliveira | without a coalition | 402.236 | 0.47 | 5. |
| 2006 | Heloísa Helena ( PSOL ) | César Benjamin (PSOL) | PSOL, PSTU and PCB | 6,575,393 | 6.85 | 3. |
| 2010 | José Maria de Almeida (PSTU) | Cláudia Durans | without a coalition | 84,609 | 0.08 | 6th |
| 2014 | José Maria de Almeida (PSTU) | Cláudia Durans | without a coalition | 91.209 | 0.09 | 8th. |
| 2018 | Vera Lúcia Salgado (PSTU) | Hertz slides | without a coalition | 55,762 | 0.05 | 11. |
The party does not have a senator, deputy, governor or city prefect (mayor), only 11 city councilors for the city chambers in the local elections in Brazil in 2016 were elected in a few cities, mostly in the state of Minas Gerais .
Web links
- Party's website (Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tribunal Superior Eleitoral : Estatísticas de eleitorado - Filiados. Retrieved June 7, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Tribunal Superior Eleitoral: Partidos Registrados , accessed on March 2, 2017 (Portuguese)
- ↑ Divulgação de Resultados de Eleições. Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, October 28, 2018, accessed October 1, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese, database query).
- ^ Zeca Soares: PSTU apresenta pré-candidaturas no Maranhão. In: blogsoestado.com. July 3, 2018, accessed August 21, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Políticos do Brasil Candidatos 2016 e anos anteriore. Database query at uol.com. Retrieved March 7, 2017 (Portuguese).