About Plínio de Arruda Sampaio
Plínio Soares de Arruda Sampaio was a Brazilian intellectual and political activist, who was affiliated with the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL). He ran as a candidate for the presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil in 2010. The agreement between them was to build a new left-of-centre party if Cardoso won more than one million votes (he received 1.6 million votes). At this point, he created a special committee for land reform and proposed a model of reform that aroused the indignation of the country's powerful landlords. In 1959, a year after the election of Carvalho Pinto, Arruda Sampaio became coordinator of the government's action plan, a position he held until 1962.
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