Socialism and Freedom Party

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Partido Socialismo e Liberdade




President	Heloísa Helena

Founded	June 6, 2004
Headquarters	SDS, Edificio Venâncio V, Loja 28 Brasília

Political Ideology	Socialism,Trotskyism and other Far-left ideologies
International Affiliation	different groups in the PSOL have different international affiliations
Colours	red, yellow
TSE Identification Number	50

Website	www.psol.org.br

See also	Politics of Brazil Political parties Elections

The Socialism and Freedom Party (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade, P-SOL) is a Brazilian political party. Among the party leaders are Heloísa Helena (Alagoas), federal deputies Luciana Genro (Rio Grande do Sul) and Babá (Pará), and a number of well-known Brazilian left-wing leaders and intellectuals, such as Milton Temer, Carlos Nelson Coutinho, Ricardo Antunes, Francisco de Oliveira, João Machado, Pedro Ruas and others.

PSOL was formed after Heloísa Helena, Luciana Genro, Babá and João Fontes (also a federal deputy, now a member of the PDT) were expelled from the Workers' Party, after voting against the neo-liberal pension reform proposed by Lula. After collecting more than 438,000 signatures, P-SOL became Brazil's 29th officially recognized political party, the first to do so by this method.

1 Members of the National Congress
- 1.1 Senators
- 1.2 Federal Deputies
2 Elections
- 2.1 2006

[edit] Members of the National Congress

P-SOL currently has one senator and three federal deputies. It should be noticed that the representative of P-SOL in the Senate was not elected - he was the substitute of Ana Júlia, who renounced to her last 4 years of mandate after she was elected governor of Pará. It also should be noticed that, by the time he was chosen her eventual substitute, he was a Worker´s Party member and P-SOL did not existed.

[edit] Senators

Name	State	Internal tendency
José Nery	Pará	Socialist Popular Action

[edit] Federal Deputies

Name	State	Internal tendency
Luciana Genro	RS	Movement of the Socialist Left
Francisco "Chico" Alencar	RJ
Ivan Valente	SP	Socialist Popular Action

[edit] Elections

[edit] 2006

P-SOL launched Heloísa Helena to run for president in 2006 elections. The vice-presidential candidate was intellectual César Benjamin. The party ran in a left-wing ticket along with two other parties: trotskyist PSTU and communist PCB.

The alliance was extended to gubernatorial elections. In Minas Gerais, for instance, Vanessa Portugal, from the PSTU, ran for governor within the same coalition. Prominent P-SOL gubernatorial candidates were Plínio de Arruda Sampaio in São Paulo, Milton Temer in Rio de Janeiro and Roberto Robaina in Rio Grande do Sul. However, they were all defeated.

Heloísa Helena finished the presidential race in the third place, receiving 6.5 million votes throughout the country (6.85% of the valid votes). Three federal deputies managed to get re-elected.