Partido da Causa Operária
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| Party leader | Rui Costa Pimenta |
| founding | December 9, 1995 |
| Headquarters | São Paulo |
| Alignment | Left-wing extremism , Marxism , Trotskyism |
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| Number of members | 4374 (April 2020) |
| Website | www.pco.org.br |
The Partido da Causa Operária ( PCO ) is a Brazilian left-wing extremist party founded in 1995 .
history
The party was founded in São Paulo in 1995 by the journalist and politician Rui Costa Pimenta , grandson of the Brazilian union and communist leader João da Costa Pimenta . It received its approval on September 30, 1997 by the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) with party number 29. It is a small party that already had a little over 3500 members in 2020. National President has been Rui Costa Pimenta for 25 years (as of 2020). It distributes a party newspaper and is represented on YouTube with the Causa Operária TV channel .
ideology
Shaped by the party chairman, it is Marxist-Trotskyist. She is for democracy, decriminalization of drugs, legalization of abortion, agricultural reform, taxes for churches and religious communities, and a new constituent assembly. She speaks out against a tightening of the gun laws, neoliberalism, privatization of the economy and a reduction in the age of criminal responsibility.
elections
The party has not yet been able to achieve any electoral alliance. Pimenta regularly runs as a presidential candidate, but had no chance with 0.01 to 0.05 of the votes.
| year | Presidential candidate |
Vice presidential candidate |
coalition | be right | % | Note |
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| 2002 | Rui Costa Pimenta | Pedro Paulo de Abreu (PCO) | no | 38,619 | 0.05 | |
| 2010 | Rui Costa Pimenta | Edson Dorta Silva (PCO) | no | 12.206 | 0.01 | |
| 2014 | Rui Costa Pimenta | Ricardo Machado (PCO) | no | 12,324 | 0.01 |
Web links
- Party's website (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Estatuto do Partido de December 9 , 1995 , party statute , TSE adopted September 30, 1997 [PDF]
Individual evidence
- ^ Presidente do Partido Liberal. In: pl22.com.br. Partido Liberal, accessed on April 21, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese, as of 2019).
- ↑ Tribunal Superior Eleitoral : Estatísticas de eleitorado - Filiados. Retrieved May 25, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Relatório das Eleições 2002. In: www.justicaeleitoral.jus.br. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Apuração de votos e candidatos eleitos (1º turno) - UOL Eleições 2010. In: placar.eleicoes.uol.com.br. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Resultado final the eleições 2014. In: O Globo. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .