A origem e ascensão do PSOL em Macapá

Abstract

The PSOL was founded in September 2003, came up with the expulsion of PT deputies who voted against the Pension Reform (2003), earned his definitive record one year after its foundation. Since the beginning has remained consistent with the party which presents itself as a real alternative left, denouncing corruption, fighting against the attacks on workers' rights, giving support to social movements. With a decade of existence the PSOL has been growing and highlighting the national political scene, like the Amapá that in the 2010 and 2112 elections amounted to political leadership and came to power by electing a senator (the most voted the state's history) and mayor of the capital. Given this development process and party claim which elements allow the PSOL gain popular strength and thus ascend to political office played in the last elections in Macapa? Thus, the objective of this research is to analyze the rise of PSOL in Amapá political scene. For this, the methodological procedures were: bibliographic research, field research (the party headquarters to visit for information in your file, in order to verify the data relating to the history of the PSOL and application of semistructured interviews with affiliated and unaffiliated , in addition to participate in plenary sessions, conferences and meetings of the party) and processing information. After that, data collection can be said that the factors that led to the rise of PSOL were: the political crisis that passed the state, because of the corruption scheme triggered by the Federal Police called Operation Clean Hands (2010) which took several politicians to jail, in addition to the good performance of its parliamentarians, its constant presence in the social movements and the support of its membership. Finally, the PSOL is a small party nationally, but is growing every election. Amapá the party won victories that brought him to power, but it had to meet with his own ideals change the discourse to suit Amapá political system.