Heloísa Helena (politician)

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Heloísa Helena
Deputy Mayor of Maceió
In office
1 January 1993 – 1 January 1995
Personal details
Born
Heloísa Helena Lima de Moraes Carvalho

(1962-06-06) 6 June 1962 (age 62)
Nurse

Heloísa Helena Lima de Moraes Carvalho (Portuguese pronunciation:

Rede Sustentabilidade. She is the Brazilian woman to have received the third highest voting in a presidential race, ranking behind Marina Silva and Dilma Rousseff in 2010.[1]

In 1998, she was elected Senator for Alagoas, having attained the highest vote count in that election. Then a member of the Workers' Party, she disagreed with certain policies that she deemed excessively conservative. Thus, in 2003 she voted against the overhaul of public servants' pensions[2] carried out in the first term of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and, as a result, was expelled from the party.[3][4] The following year, she was one of the founding members of the Socialism and Liberty Party.[5] In 2013, she helped found the Rede Sustentabilidade Party,[6] and has been a member thereof since then.

Career

A trained

military dictatorship. She became a member of the left-wing Workers' Party (PT) and a leader of Socialist Democracy, a Trotskyist caucus in PT.[citation needed
]

In 1992, Helena was chosen as deputy mayor of

Independent
politician.

Following her expulsion, Helena and other dissident members of PT founded a new party, the

2006 general elections. She had 6% of the voting, obtaining almost 6.6 million votes. During the following election
, she was elected a councilwoman for Maceió, becoming the top voted candidate in the Alagoas state after achieving almost 30,000 votes.

On 20 October 2010, it was announced by the media that Heloísa had left the presidency of PSOL. The councilwoman and former senator said she decided to departure from the national presidency of the party because of its support to

2010 election. (In reality, PSOL only declared "critical support" of Rousseff, stating that it only chose to do so in order to secure the defeat of "right-wing" candidate José Serra in the general elections, and that it would continue to oppose the centrist[citation needed] PT government; many members of the party, including defeated presidential candidate Plínio de Arruda Sampaio
, chose to annul their vote, refusing to support Rousseff.) In the press release, Helena made it clear that she will continue on PSOL.

At the same election, Helena unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Senate for Alagoas. Despite leading the polls for a considerable amount of time, she got 417,636 votes (16.6% of the total), finishing the race in third, behind Benedito de Lira and Renan Calheiros.

In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Russian Feminist Anti-War Resistance.[7][n. 1]

Notes

  1. ^ This manifesto was criticized by both Ukrainian feminists and members of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance themselves.[8][9][10]

References

  1. ^ "Mulheres podem fazer história nas eleições de 2010 - Diário do Grande ABC" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  2. ^ "Heloísa Helena vota contra reforma da Previdência" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  3. ^ "Folha Online - Brasil - Expulsa do PT, Heloísa Helena diz que "não chora mais" - 14/12/2003". www1.folha.uol.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  4. ^ "Folha Online - Brasil - PT expulsa radicais do partido - 14/12/2003". www1.folha.uol.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  5. ^ "Folha Online - Brasil - Deputados expulsos do PT devem criar novo partido - 14/12/2003". www1.folha.uol.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  6. ^ "De mãos dadas com Heloísa Helena, Marina abre evento para lançar partido" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2013-02-16. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
  7. ^ "Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto". Spectre Journal. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  8. ^ Hendl, Tereza (2022). "Towards accounting for Russian imperialism and building meaningful transnational feminist solidarity with Ukraine" (PDF). Gender Studies. 26: 62–93.
  9. ^ Ashley Smith (June 23, 2022). "Inside the Russian Resistance Against Putin's War". Spectre Journal. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  10. ^ "Russia's women are fighting back against the war in Ukraine". OpenDemocracy.net. 4 October 2022. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
Party political offices
New political party National President of PSOL
2004–2010 		Succeeded by
New political party Socialism and Liberty Party nominee for President of Brazil
2006 		Succeeded by
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