Authentic Socialist Party (Argentina)

Authentic Socialist Party
Partido Socialista Auténtico
AbbreviationPSA
General SecretaryAdrián Rodolfo Camps
Founded14 December 1982; 41 years ago (1982-12-14)
Split fromPopular Socialist Party
HeadquartersSarandí 56, Buenos Aires
Membership (2016)11,752
IdeologyDemocratic socialism
Left-wing nationalism
Political positionLeft-wing
National affiliationFederal Consensus
Website
www.psa.org.ar

The Authentic Socialist Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Auténtico; Welsh: Plaid Sosialaidd Dilys; PSA) is a minor socialist political party in Argentina.

Formed in the 1960s as a division of the Popular Socialist Party as the Argentine Socialist Party, it was forced to change its name in 1983 after the prohibition for political parties to have the terms National or Argentine in their names.[citation needed]

In 2002, the party refused to join the Popular Socialist Party and the Democratic Socialist Party in the reborn Socialist Party.[1] In 2007, film director Fernando 'Pino' Solanas stood for the Party to be President of Argentina. The Party gained one deputy in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, Claudio Lozano.[citation needed]

  1. ^ "Nuevo candidato presidencial. El socialismo auténtico lanzó a Mario Mazzitelli". La Nacion (in Spanish). August 2, 2002. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021.