Dayse Oliveira

Dayse Oliveira (born 31 May 1966, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian educator and socialist activist, active within the Black rights movement in Rio de Janeiro. She was the vice-presidential candidate for the United Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU) in 2002, with José Maria de Almeida as the presidential candidate.

Oliveira was initially an activist within the Workers' Party (PT), having affiliations with the Brazilian trotskyist organization and then-affiliate of the PT Socialist Convergence (Brazil). After the Socialist Convergence was expelled from the party apparatus for supporting the Fora Collor movement to impeach former president Fernando Collor, to the extent of calling for new presidential elections and running against the will of the larger PT, Oliveira joined the PSTU. She is also the founder of the Sindicato Estadual dos Profissionais de Educação do Rio de Janeiro (SEPE-RJ), a union in Rio de Janeiro state representing teachers and other employees in the education field. She currently is part of the Secretary of Gender and Combatting Homophobia.

Oliveira was the vice-presidential candidate of the PSTU, with José Maria de Almeida as the presidential candidate, during the 2002 presidential election. The presidential bid received 402,236 votes, and did not advance into the second round. She then ran for mayor in the city of São Gonçalo in 2004, receiving 6,723 votes, and again in 2012, receiving 2,576 votes. She was the candidate for the PSTU for senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro in 2006, obtaining 31,875 votes. In 2014, she ran for governor for the state of Rio de Janeiro and received 33,442 votes. In the second round, she declined to support either candidate, Luiz Fernando Pezão or Marcelo Crivella, and put in a null vote for the run-off. She ran for governor again in 2018, with Cyro Garcia and Samantha Guedes as candidates for the PSTU that year. Oliveira obtained 17,499 votes.

Oliveira currently is a history teacher in São Gonçalo and is also a primary school teacher in Niterói, with both positions being in public schools.