The Labor Party of Socialist Unity ( port : Partido Operário de Unidade Socialista, or POUS ) is a Trotskyist political party in Portugal . Portuguese section of the Lambertist Fourth International [1] .
| Labor Party of Socialist Unity | |
|---|---|
| Partido Operário de Unidade Socialista | |
| Leader | Aniceta Barbosa |
| Founder | and |
| Established | 1976 |
| Headquarters | |
| Ideology | Marxism , Trotskyism |
| International | Lambertist Fourth International |
| Party print | O militante socialista |
| Site | pous4.no.sapo.pt |
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A Brief History and Activity
The POUS was founded in 1976 at the initiative of MPs from the Portuguese Socialist Party (PSP), Antonio Aires Rodrigues and Carmelinda Pereira . Originally called the Organization of the Fourth International . It took its current name in September 1979 [2] after the union of the Movement for Socialist Unity and the Socialist Organization of Workers [3] . In 1994, the POUS was renamed the Movement for Worker Unity ( MUT ), but in 1999 it assumed its former name [4] . In 2001, the party was led by Aniceto Barbosa.
The party favors Portugal's withdrawal from the European Union and a ban on dismissal. Enjoys little voter support. In the parliamentary elections in 2005, the party received 0.10% of the vote [5] . In the European Parliament elections in 2009, the POUS received 5,101 votes, and 0.14% [6] , which is more than in the elections in 2004 , when it collected 4,275 votes (0.13%) [5] . In the elections to the European Parliament in 2014, she took last place.
Election Party Results
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( Source : National Electoral Commission )
Notes
- ↑ * Denis Pilash. Portugal: Echoes of the unfinished revolution (translation of the chapter from the book “Liva Europa.” - Kiev, 2017.)
- ↑ Leftist Parties of the World
- ↑ Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Partido Operário da Unidade Socialista (link not available) . Date of treatment September 28, 2009. Archived June 7, 2007.
- ↑ Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Movimento para a Unidade dos Trabalhadores (link not available) . Date of treatment September 28, 2009. Archived on September 5, 2007.
- ↑ 1 2 Comissão Nacional de Eleições
- ↑ Offical results (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment July 16, 2009. Archived on October 7, 2011.