Socialist Alternative Movement Movimento Alternativa Socialista | |
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| Abbreviation | MAS |
| Leader | Collective leadership |
| Founded | April 2000 (2000-04) |
| Preceded by | Left Revolutionary Front |
| Headquarters | Lisbon |
| Newspaper | Ruptura |
| Student wing | Ruptura |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Colours | Red |
| Assembly of the Republic | 0 / 230 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 21 |
| Regional Parliaments | 0 / 104 |
| Local government | 0 / 2,086 |
| Website | |
| www.mas.org.pt | |
TheSocialist Alternative Movement (Portuguese:Movimento Alternativa Socialista, MAS), formerly known as theLeft Revolutionary Front (Portuguese:Frente da Esquerda Revolucionária, Ruptura/FER) is aTrotskyist organization inPortugal. It was the Portuguese section of theInternational Workers' League (Fourth International)[1] until they split in 2017.[2] It ran on a joint list with the Madeira-basedLabour Party in the2015 parliamentary elections.
The party was founded as the Left Revolutionary Front (FER) in 1983. This was dissolved in 2005 and merged with thestudent activist movement Ruptura (which was part of theLeft Bloc) to form Ruptura/FER.
The party says in its constitution that "the fight against capitalist exploitation and all forms of oppression of human beings by a socialist democratic regime, for workers' power, to ensure the transition tosocialism andcommunism. We understand by socialism a society in which power is exercised democratically by the workers and Communism a society without classes and without the state. This implies the rejection of the "experiences" of capitalism management spearheaded by the social democrats (PS governments) or of totalitarian regimes dominated by a singleStalinist party".
The party was renamed to MAS and registered as a party in August 2013 (a first attempt at registration in March 2013 was rejected, since its statute violated the assumptions required by theConstitutional Court).
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/- | Government |
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| 2015 | Gil Garcia [pt] | AGIR! | 0 / 230 | No seats | ||
| 2019 | 3,158 | 0.1 (#21) | 0 / 230 |  0 | No seats | |
| 2022 | Renata Cambra [pt] | 6,494 | 0.1 (#18) | 0 / 230 | 0 | No seats |
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | EP Group |
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| 2014 | Gil Garcia [pt] | 12,442 | 0.4 (#13) | 0 / 21 | – | |
| 2019 | Vasco Santos | 6,641 | 0.2 (#17) | 0 / 21 | 0 | |
| 2024 | Gil Garcia [pt] | 5,057 | 0.1 (#14) | 0 / 21 | 0 |
| Election | Candidate | Votes | % | Result |
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| 2016 | Marisa Matias | 469,814 | 10.1 (#3) | Lost N |
| 2021 | 165,127 | 4.0 (#5) | LostN |
| Parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic (230) |
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| Legislative Assembly of the Azores Autonomous Region (57) |
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| Legislative Assembly of the Madeira Autonomous Region (47) |
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| European Parliament (21) | |
| Non-parliamentary parties | |
