Socialism and Freedom Party
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| Partido Socialismo e Liberdade | |
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| 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 |
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 Democratic Labour Party, PDT) were expelled from the Workers' Party, after voting against the 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.
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[edit] Members of the National Congress
P-SOL currently has one senator and three federal deputies in the National Congress of Brazil. The representative of P-SOL in the Senate was not elected - he was the substitute of Ana Júlia, who renounced the last four years of her mandate after she was elected governor of Pará. At the time he was chosen as her eventual substitute, he was a Worker's Party member and P-SOL did not exist.
[edit] Senators
| Name | State | Internal tendency |
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| José Nery | Pará | Socialist Popular Action |
[edit] Federal Deputies
| Name | State | Internal tendency |
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| 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 United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU) and communist Brazilian Communist Party (PCB).
The alliance was extended to gubernatorial elections. In Minas Gerais, for instance, Vanessa Portugal, from the PSTU, ran for governor with P-SOL's support, although not with PCB's. 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.
| Preceded by 45 - BSDP (PSDB) |
Numbers of Brazilian Official Political Parties 50 - SFP (PSOL) |
Succeeded by 56 - PRNO (PRONA) - defunct 65 - CPB (PCdoB) |
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