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Socialism and Liberty Party Partido Socialismo e Liberdade
Abbreviation	PSOL
President	Paula Coradi
Founded	6 June 2004
Split from	Workers' Party
Headquarters	SDS, Edificio Venâncio V, Loja 28,Brasília
Membership(2023)	291,552 (2019)[1]
Ideology	Democratic socialism Socialism of the 21st century Progressivism[2]
Political position	Left-wing[6]
National affiliation	PSOL REDE Federation
International affiliation	Different groups in PSOL have different international affiliations.
Colours	Yellow   Red   Purple   Orange
TSE Identification Number	50
Chamber of Deputies	13 / 513
Federal Senate	0 / 81
Governorships	0 / 27
State Assemblies	22 / 1,024
Mayors	5 / 5,570
City Councillors	89 / 56,810
Party flag
Website
psol50.org.br
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TheSocialism and Liberty Party (Portuguese:Partido Socialismo e Liberdade,IPA:[paʁˈtʃidusosi.ɐˈlizmuilibeʁˈdadʒi,-sosjɐˈlizmw-];PSOL[peˈsɔw]) is aleft-wingpolitical party in Brazil. The party describes itself associalist anddemocratic.

The party leader is Paula Coradi and the federal deputiesIvan Valente,Talíria Petrone,Sâmia Bomfim,Fernanda Melchionna,Glauber Braga,Luiza Erundina,Erika Hilton,Chico Alencar,Célia Xakriabá,Guilherme Boulos, PastorHenrique Vieira,Tarcísio Motta andLuciene Cavalcante,^[7] as well as theminister of the Native PeopleSônia Guajajara, with a number of well-known Brazilian left-wing leaders and intellectuals, such asMilton Temer [arz;pt],Hamilton Assis,Michael Löwy,Luciana Genro,Vladimir Safatle,Renato Roseno [pt],Carlos Nelson Coutinho [pt],Ricardo Antunes [pt],Francisco de Oliveira [fr;pt], João Machado,Pedro Ruas [pt] and others.

PSOL was formed afterHeloísa Helena, Luciana Genro, Babá and João Fontes were expelled from theWorkers' Party after voting against the pension reform proposed byLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva. 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 presidentsJosé Sarney andFernando 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.^{[citation needed]} The logo, a smiling sun, was designed by famed cartoonist and children's authorZiraldo.^[8]

The ideology of the party varies between theleft and thefar left. The programmatic elements found in the party are related tosocialism,anti-capitalism, andanti-imperialism. There areMarxist,Trotskyist,eco-socialist, andlabor unionist 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 andinfrastructure, and a break with theInternational Monetary Fund.^[9] It also seeks to decriminalizeabortion.^[10] 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.^[9]

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

As of April 2025.

PSOL launched Heloísa Helena to run for president in the 2006 elections. The vice-presidential candidate was intellectualCésar Benjamin [es;pt]. The party ran in a left-wing ticket along with two other parties:TrotskyistUnited Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU) andMarxist–LeninistBrazilian Communist Party (PCB).

The alliance was extended to gubernatorial elections. InMinas Gerais, for instance, Vanessa Portugal, from the PSTU, ran for governor with PSOL's support, although not with PCB's. Prominent PSOL gubernatorial candidates werePlínio de Arruda Sampaio inSão Paulo,Milton Temer [arz;pt] inRio de Janeiro and Roberto Robaina inRio Grande do Sul. However, they were all defeated.

Heloísa Helena finished the presidential race in 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.

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%.

In 2012 PSOL got its best results so far.Clécio Luís and Gelsimar Gonzaga were elected mayors inMacapá,Amapá's state capital, and Itaocara.

In the northern second largest cityBelém 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.

PSOL initially nominatedRandolfe Rodrigues, the Senator forAmapá, as their candidate for president in 2014, with former federal deputy and party co-founderLuciana Genro as his running mate.^[15] Federal deputyChico Alencar of Rio de Janeiro and attorneyRenato Roseno [pt] 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 popstarJessica 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 candidatesTarcísio 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 candidateHeloísa Helena (AL) got 31.86%, but she lost the election to former Brazilian presidentFernando Collor de Mello, who was impeached.

In2018, PSOL chose prolific labor leaderGuilherme Boulos as their nominee for thepresidency. Boulos's close affiliation with former PresidentLula led to concern that his nomination would erode PSOL's distinct identity.^[16] 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 educatorHamilton Assis, and academicNildo Ouriques. Indigenous leaderSônia Guajajara, who initially sought the party's nomination, was chosen to serve as his vice presidential running mate.

On 30 April, PSOL made official its support for the pre-candidacy ofLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) for the presidency. The party approved its support during electoral conference.^[17] On the 7 May,PT made official the pre-candidacy of ex-president Lula and ex-governor ofSão PauloGeraldo Alckmin (PSB) to run for president.^[18] 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 presidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and former governorGeraldo Alckmin (PSB) for the presidency.^[19]

Election	Chamber of Deputies				Federal Senate				Role in government
	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
2006	1,149,619	1.23%	3 / 513	New	351,527	0.42%	1 / 81	New	Opposition
2010	1,142,737	1.18%	3 / 513	0	3,041,854	1.78%	2 / 81	1	Opposition
2014	1,745,470	1.79%	5 / 513	2	1,045,275	1.17%	1 / 81	1	Independent(2014-2016)
									Opposition(2016-2018)
2018	2,783,669	2.83%	10 / 513	5	5,273,853	3.08%	0 / 81	1	Opposition
2022[a]	3,852,246	3.52%	12 / 513	2	675,244	0.68%	0 / 81	0	Coalition

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