The Authentic Socialist Party ( es, Partido Socialista Auténtico; PSA) is a minor socialist political party in

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. 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. In 2002, the party refused to join the Popular Socialist Party and the Democratic Socialist Party in the reborn

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...

. In 2007, film director Fernando 'Pino' Solanas stood for the Party to be

President of Argentina The president of Argentina ( es, Presidente de Argentina), officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation ( es, Presidente de la Nación Argentina), is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under Constitution of Ar ...

. The Party gained one deputy in the

Argentine Chamber of Deputies The Chamber of Deputies ( es, Cámara de Diputados de la Nación), officially the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, is the lower house of the Argentine National Congress ( es, Congreso de la Nación). It is made up of 257 ...

, Claudio Lozano.

External links

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