{{short description|Trotskyist political party in Portugal}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox political party | name = Socialist Alternative Movement | native_name = Movimento Alternativa Socialista | native_name_lang = pt | abbreviation = MAS | colorcode = crimson | logo = Socialist Alternative Movement logo.png | leader = ''Collective leadership'' | foundation = {{start date|df=yes|2000|4}} | headquarters = Lisbon | newspaper = ''Ruptura'' | predecessor = {{nowrap|Left Revolutionary Front}} | student_wing = Ruptura | ideology = {{ubl|Socialism|Trotskyism}} | colours = {{colour box|crimson}} Red | seats1_title = Assembly of the Republic | seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|230|hex=crimson}} | seats2_title = European<br />Parliament | seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|21|hex=crimson}} | seats3_title = Regional<br />Parliaments | seats3 = {{Composition bar|0|104|hex=crimson}} | seats4_title = Local<br />government | seats4 = {{Composition bar|0|2086|hex=crimson}} | website = {{URL|http://www.mas.org.pt/|www.mas.org.pt}} | country = Portugal }} {{Trotskyism}} The '''Socialist Alternative Movement''' ({{langx|pt|Movimento Alternativa Socialista}}, MAS), formerly known as the '''Left Revolutionary Front''' ({{langx|pt|Frente da Esquerda Revolucionária, Ruptura/FER}}) is a Trotskyist organization in Portugal. It was the Portuguese section of the International Workers' League (Fourth International)<ref>Lisi 2013, p. 36.</ref> until they split in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mas.org.pt/index.php/mas/1365-declaracao-conjunta-de-mais-brasil-e-mas-portugal-.html|title=Declaração conjunta de MAIS (Brasil) e MAS (Portugal)|last=Administrador|website=MAS|language=pt-pt|access-date=2018-12-13|archive-date=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531155221/https://www.mas.org.pt/index.php/mas/1365-declaracao-conjunta-de-mais-brasil-e-mas-portugal-.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> It ran on a joint list with the Madeira-based Labour Party in the 2015 parliamentary elections.
The party was founded as the Left Revolutionary Front (FER) in 1983. This was dissolved in 2005 and merged with the student activist movement Ruptura (which was part of the Left 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 to socialism and communism. 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 single Stalinist 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 the Constitutional Court).
== Election results ==
=== Assembly of the Republic === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;" !Election ! width="155px" |Leader !Votes ! % !Seats !+/- !Government |- !2015 | rowspan="2" align=left|{{ill|Gil Garcia (politician)|lt=Gil Garcia|pt|Gil Garcia}} | colspan="2" |''AGIR!'' |{{Composition bar|0|230|hex={{party color|Socialist Alternative Movement}}}} | |{{n/a|No seats}} |- !2019 |3,158 |0.1 (#21) |{{Composition bar|0|230|hex={{party color|Socialist Alternative Movement}}}} |{{steady}}0 |{{n/a|No seats}} |- !2022 |align=left|{{ill|Renata Cambra|pt}} |6,494 |0.1 (#18) |{{Composition bar|0|230|hex={{party color|Socialist Alternative Movement}}}} |{{steady}}0 |{{n/a|No seats}} |}
=== European Parliament === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" ! Election ! width="155px" |Leader ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! +/– ! EP Group |- ! 2014 | align=left|{{ill|Gil Garcia (politician)|lt=Gil Garcia|pt|Gil Garcia}} | 12,442 | 0.4 (#13) | {{Composition bar|0|21|hex={{party color|Socialist Alternative Movement}}}} | | rowspan=3 align=center| – |- ! 2019 | align=left| Vasco Santos | 6,641 | 0.2 (#17) | {{Composition bar|0|21|hex={{party color|Socialist Alternative Movement}}}} | {{steady}}0 |- ! 2024 | align=left| {{ill|Gil Garcia (politician)|lt=Gil Garcia|pt|Gil Garcia}} | 5,057 | 0.1 (#14) | {{Composition bar|0|21|hex={{party color|Socialist Alternative Movement}}}} | {{steady}}0 |}
=== Presidential elections === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;" !Election ! width="152px" |Candidate !Votes ! % !Result |- !2016 | colspan="3" align="center" |''Supported Marisa Matias'' |{{no2|'''Lost''' {{Nay}}}} |- !2021 | colspan="3" align="center" |''Supported Marisa Matias'' |{{no2|'''Lost''' {{Nay}}}} |- !2026 | align="left" |André Pestana |10,897 |0.2 (#10) |{{no2|'''Lost''' {{Nay}}}} |}
==See also== *List of Trotskyist internationals
==Notes== {{reflist}}
==References== * {{cite journal |last = Lisi |first = Marco | title = Rediscovering civil society? Renewal and continuity in the Portuguese radical left | journal = South European Society and Politics | volume = 18 | issue = 1 | pages = 21–39 | doi = 10.1080/13608746.2012.757450 | date = March 2013 |s2cid = 155551865 }}
==External links== *[http://www.rupturafer.org/ Frente da Esquerda Revolucionária (Ruptura/FER)] (Portuguese) *[http://www.litci.org/ International Workers' League (Fourth International)]
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