Brazilian Socialist Party Brazilian Socialist Party The Brazilian Socialist Party (, PSB) is a political party in Brazil. It was founded in 1947, before being abolished by the military regime in 1965 and re-organised in 1985 with the re-democratisation of Brazil. It elected six Governors in 2010, becoming the second largest party in number of state governments, behind only PSDB. In addition to that, it won 34 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and three seats in the Senate, besides having been a member of the "For Brazil to Keep on Changing" coalition, which elected Dilma Rousseff as President of Brazil. In 2014
Dilma Rousseff indemnification has a symbolic value to her, and Rousseff demanded the requests be tried only after her departure from public office. On 5 April 2009, "Folha de S.Paulo" published, on its front page, an alleged criminal record of Rousseff containing notes about various crimes allegedly committed by her. The document would have been part of the file of the Department of Political and Social Order (), the military regime's political police. Rousseff questioned the veracity of the file, claiming that it was a forged document, which led the newspaper to declare that it had not obtained the document from DOPS'