Socialism and Liberty Party

Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:Use dmy dates Template:Multiple issues Template:Infobox political party Template:Socialism sidebar The Socialism and Liberty Party (Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}; PSOL {{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a left-wing political party in Brazil. The party describes itself as socialist and democratic.

The party leader is Juliano Medeiros and the federal deputies Ivan Valente, Talíria Petrone, Sâmia Bomfim, Fernanda Melchionna, Glauber Braga, Luiza Erundina, Erika Hilton, Chico Alencar, Célia Xakriabá, Guilherme Boulos, Pastor Henrique Vieira, Tarcísio Motta and Luciene Cavalcante,<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as the former mayor of Belém Edmilson Rodrigues and the minister of the Native People Sônia Guajajara, with a number of well-known Brazilian left-wing leaders and intellectuals, such as Template:Interlanguage link, Hamilton Assis, Michael Löwy, Luciana Genro, Vladimir Safatle, Template:Ill, Template:Ill, Template:Ill, Template:Ill, João Machado, Template:Ill and others.

PSOL was formed after Heloísa Helena, Luciana Genro, Babá and João Fontes were expelled from the Workers' Party after voting against the pension reform proposed by Lula. They opposed the decisions of Lula's government, considering them to be too conservative, and the Workers' Party alliances with controversial right-wing politicians, such as the former presidents José Sarney and Fernando Collor.

After collecting more than 438,000 signatures, PSOL became Brazil's 29th officially recognized political party, the first to do so by this method.Template:Citation needed

Ideology and support

The ideology of the party varies between the left and the far left. The programmatic elements found in the party are related to socialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism. There are Marxist, Trotskyist, eco-socialist, and labor unionism tendencies within the party. Among other things, the party program includes the reduction of working hours, agrarian and urban reform, increased spending on health, education and infrastructure, and a break with the International Monetary Fund.<ref name="whattocall">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It also seeks to decriminalize abortion.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Because it is a party formed by trends that possess the political spectrum of the left in common, they represent distinct divisions in question of origin, geographical location and composition of its leaderships. The formation of tendencies provided for in the party statute can be freely organized without direct interference from the party leadership, allowing autonomy of intra-party groups, provided they follow the political prerogatives of the party's statute and program.<ref name="whattocall"/>

Internal tendencies

Abbreviation	Name in Portuguese	Name in English	Ideology	International affiliation
APS-NE	Ação Popular Socialista - Nova Era	Socialist People's Action - New Era	Democratic socialism
	Rebelião Ecossocialista	Ecosocialist Rebellion	Trotskyism Mandelism Eco-socialism<ref name=":0" />	Fourth International (reunited)
	Centelhas	Sparks	Trotskyism Mandelism Eco-socialism	Fourth International (reunited)
	Fortalecer o PSOL	Strengthen PSOL	Trotskyism,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Left-wing populism||
	Insurgência	Insurgency	Trotskyism Mandelism Eco-socialism<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||Fourth International (reunited)
LSR	Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução	Freedom, Socialism and Revolution	Trotskyism	International Socialist Alternative
MES	Movimento Esquerda Socialista	Socialist Left Movement	Trotskyism Morenism	Fourth International (reunited)
PS	Primavera Socialista	Socialist Spring	Democratic socialism
	Resistência	Resistance	Trotskyism
	Revolução Solidária	Solidarity Revolution	Left-wing populism<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>||
SBVT	Subverta	Subvert	Trotskyism Mandelism Eco-socialism Buen vivir<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Fourth International (reunited)

PSOL also allows certain unregistered political parties to launch candidates through its TSE registry number. These organizations, however, cannot participate in the party's congresses. This is some organization that used PSOL electoral legend in some moment:

Abbreviation	Name in Portuguese	Name in English	Ideology
BP	Brigadas Populares	People's Brigades	Marxism–Leninism, Left-wing nationalism, Socialism of the 21st Century, Bolivarianism
MRT	Movimento Revolucionário de Trabalhadores	Workers' Revolutionary Movement	Trotskyism
PCR	Partido Comunista Revolucionário	Revolutionary Communist Party	Marxism–Leninism, Stalinism, Guevarism, Hoxhaism, Anti-revisionism
PCLCP	Polo Comunista Luiz Carlos Prestes	Luiz Carlos Prestes Communist Hub	Marxism–Leninism, Left-wing nationalism
RAiZ	Raiz - Movimento Cidadanista	Roots - Citizens' Movement	Eco-socialism, Teko Porã, Ubuntu
RC	Refundação Comunista	Communist Refoundation	Revolutionary socialism

Members of the National Congress

As of April 2025.

Federal Deputies

Name	State	Internal tendency
Fernanda Melchionna	Rio Grande do Sul	MES
Célia Xakriabá	Minas Gerais	Independent
Tarcísio Motta	Rio de Janeiro	Independent
Chico Alencar	Rio de Janeiro	Independent
Henrique Vieira	Rio de Janeiro	Revolução Solidária
Talíria Petrone	Rio de Janeiro	Subverta
Glauber Braga	Rio de Janeiro	Fortalecer o PSOL
Ivan Valente	São Paulo	Primavera Socialista
Luiza Erundina	São Paulo	Independent
Sâmia Bomfim	São Paulo	MES
Erika Hilton	São Paulo	Revolução Solidária
Luciene Cavalcante	São Paulo	Revolução Solidária
Guilherme Boulos	São Paulo	Revolução Solidária

State Deputies

Name	State	Internal tendency
Carlos Giannazi	São Paulo	Revolução Solidária
Bancada Feminista	São Paulo	Resistência/Insurgência/Subverta
Ediane Maria	São Paulo	Revolução Solidária
Mônica do Movimento Pretas	São Paulo	MES
Guilherme Cortez	São Paulo	Resistência
Renata Souza	Rio de Janeiro	Revolução Solidária
Flávio Serafini	Rio de Janeiro	Subverta
Dani Monteiro	Rio de Janeiro	Maloka Socialista
Professor Josemar	Rio de Janeiro	MES
Yuri Moura	Rio de Janeiro	Revolução Solidária
Luciana Genro	Rio Grande do Sul	MES
Matheus Gomes	Rio Grande do Sul	Resistência
Fábio Félix	Federal District	MES
Max Maciel	Federal District	Independent
Camila Valadão	Espírito Santo	MES
Linda Brasil	Sergipe	Independent
Renato Roseno	Ceará	Insurgência - Reconstrução Democrática
Hilton Coelho	Bahia	APS-NE
Dani Portela	Pernambuco	Revolução Solidária
Lívia Duarte	Pará	Primavera Socialista
Bella Gonçalves	Minas Gerais	Revolução Solidária
Marquito	Santa Catarina	Independent

Elections

2006

PSOL launched Heloísa Helena to run for president in 2006 elections. The vice-presidential candidate was intellectual Template:Ill. The party ran in a left-wing ticket along with two other parties: Trotskyist United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU) and Marxist–Leninist 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 PSOL's support, although not with PCB's. Prominent PSOL gubernatorial candidates were Plínio de Arruda Sampaio in São Paulo, Template:Ill 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, Luciana Genro, Chico Alencar and Ivan Valente, managed to get re-elected.

2010

In the 2010 candidate for presidential election Plínio de Arruda Sampaio received 888.000 votes (0.87%). Plinio presented an agrarian reform project in 1964 when he was federal deputy, but the 1964 Military Coup ended the project and Plinio lost his mandate. Although he received very few votes Plinio became famous after the elections because he was qualified as an anti-candidate.

PSOL elected three deputies again, Chico Alencar, Ivan Valente and Jean Wyllys.

Toninho do PSOL from Federal District got the best gubernatorial result. He finished in third place with 14.25%.

2012

In 2012 PSOL got its best results so far. Clecio Luis and Gelsimar Gonzaga were elected mayors in Macapá, Amapá's state capital, and Itaocara.

In the northern second largest city Belém and in Rio de Janeiro, PSOL finished second and elected four city councillors – the second largest group in those councils. In Belem Edmilson Rodrigues got 43.39% and in Rio de Janeiro Marcelo Freixo got 28.15%, almost 1 million votes.

Other places like São Paulo, Fortaleza, Campinas, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Salvador, Natal, Florianópolis, Niterói, São Gonçalo and Pelotas, PSOL got respectable results in 2012, 49 city councillors from PSOL were elected.

2014

PSOL initially nominated Randolfe Rodrigues, the Senator for Amapá, as their candidate for president in 2014, with former federal deputy and party co-founder Luciana Genro as his running mate.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Federal deputy Chico Alencar of Rio de Janeiro and attorney Template:Ill also ran for the party's nomination. However, he was replaced at the top of the ticket by Genro, a member of the Left Socialist Movement faction. She got 1,612,186 votes finishing in 4th place.

Genro's campaign received the support of important Brazilian intellectuals and celebrities. These included like Chico de Oliveira, Rogério Arantes, Vladimir Safatle, Michel Löwy, Gregorio Duvivier, Valesca Popozuda, Zélia Duncan, Karina Buhr, Clara Averbuck, Marina Lima, Juca Kfouri, Preta Gil, Laerte Coutinho, Marcelo Yuka and the international popstar Jessica Sutta. Her candidacy was well-regarded in the LGBT community.

PSOL elected 5 federal deputies and 12 state deputies. Marcelo Freixo (RJ) received the highest vote for a state deputy in Brazil with 350,408 votes. Carlos Giannazi was the leftist most voted in São Paulo with 164,929 votes.

Gubernatorial candidates Tarcísio Motta (RJ) with 8.92% (14.62% in city of Rio Janeiro) and Robério Paulino (RN) with 8.74% (22.45% in capital Natal) got excellent results. Senate candidate Heloísa Helena (AL) got 31.86%, but she lost the election to former Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello, who was impeached.

2018

In 2018, PSOL chose prolific labor leader Guilherme Boulos as their nominee for the presidency. Boulos's close affiliation with former President Lula led to concern that his nomination would erode PSOL's distinct identity.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was alleged that party leadership pushed Boulos at the expense of other pre-candidates for the party's nomination, including economist (and son of 2010 presidential nominee Plínio de Arruda Sampaio) Plínio de Arruda Sampaio Jr., activist and educator Hamilton Assis, and academic Nildo Ouriques. Indigenous leader Sônia Guajajara, who initially sought the party's nomination, was chosen to serve as his vice presidential running mate.

2022

On 30 April, PSOL made official its support for the pre-candidacy of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) for the presidency. The party approved its support during electoral conference.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On the 7 May, PT made official the pre-candidacy of ex-president Lula and ex-governor of São Paulo Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) to run for president.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In June, a group of PSOL affiliates created a dissident movement of the party in protest against the support to the pre-candidacy of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and former governor Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) for the presidency.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Electoral results

Presidential

Election year	Candidate	1st round		2nd round
		# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall votes	% of overall vote
2006	Heloísa Helena	6,575,393	6.9 (#3)
2010	Plínio de Arruda Sampaio	886,816	0.9 (#4)
2014	Luciana Genro	1,612,186	1.6 (#4)
2018	Guilherme Boulos	617,122	0.6 (#10)
2022	No candidate, endorsed Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Template:N/A	Template:N/A

Legislative elections

Election	Chamber of Deputies				Federal Senate				Role in government
	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
2006	1,149,619	1.23%	Template:Composition bar	New	351,527	0.42%	Template:Composition bar	New	Template:No2
2010	1,142,737	1.18%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady 0	3,041,854	1.78%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 1	Template:No2
2014	1,745,470	1.79%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 2	1,045,275	1.17%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 1	Template:Partial
									Template:No2
2018	2,783,669	2.83%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 5	5,273,853	3.08%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 1	Template:No2
2022Template:Efn	3,852,246	3.52%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 2	675,244	0.68%	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady 0	Template:Yes2