List of political parties in Portugal explained

This article lists political parties in Portugal. The Portuguese political scene has been dominated by the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party since the 1974 Carnation Revolution although there are several important minor parties (discussed below).

As of 2024, the parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic are the Democratic Alliance (80 MPs), Socialist Party (78 MPs), the Chega party (50 MPs), the Liberal Initiative (8 MPs), the Left Bloc (5 MPs), the Unitary Democratic Coalition (4 MPs), the FREE party (4 MPs), and the People-Animals-Nature party (1 MP). Several other parties are represented in the legislatures of the autonomous regions, the Legislative Assembly of the Azores and the Legislative Assembly of Madeira.

General overview

This list presents all the existing parties recognized by the Portuguese Constitutional Court.[1]

National political parties

Parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic and/or the European Parliament

PartyMain ideologyPositionLeaderMPsMEPs
PPD/PSDSocial Democratic Party
[2] [3]
PSSocialist Party
Social democracyCentre-leftPedro Nuno Santos[4] [5] [6]
CHENOUGH
Right-wing populismRight-wing
to far-right
André Ventura[7] [8] [9]
[10]
ILLiberal Initiative
Classical liberalismRui Rocha[11] [12]
[13]
B.E.Left Bloc
Democratic SocialismLeft-wing
to far-left
Mariana Mortágua[14] [15]
[16]
PCPMarxism–LeninismLeft-wing
to far-left
Paulo Raimundo[17] [18]
LFREE
Green politicsCentre-left
to left-wing
Rui Tavares[19] [20]
CDS–PPCDS – People's Party
Christian democracyNuno Melo[21]
[22]
PANPeople Animals Nature
EnvironmentalismInês Sousa Real[23] [24]
[25]

Parties without representation in the Assembly of the Republic or the European Parliament

PartyMain ideologyPositionLeader
PEVEcologist Party "The Greens"
Eco-socialismLeft-wingCollective leadership[26]
ADNNational Democratic Alternative
Far-rightBruno Fialho[27] [28]
RIRReact, Include, Recycle
UniversalismSyncreticMárcia Henriques[29] [30] [31] [32]
JPPTogether for the People
RegionalismCentreLina Pereira[33]
NDNew Right
National conservatismRight-wingOssanda Liber[34]
PCTP/MRPPAnti-revisionismFar-leftMaria Cidália Guerreiro
VPVolt Portugal
Pro-EuropeanismCentre to
centre-left
Ana Carvalho
Duarte Costa
[35]
ERise Up!
Portuguese nationalismFar-rightJosé Pinto Coelho[36] [37] [38] [39]
MPTEarth Party
Green conservatismPedro Soares Pimenta[40] [41]
AAlliance
PersonalismJorge Nuno Sá[42]
PTPPortuguese Labour Party
Democratic socialismCentre-leftAmândio Madaleno
NCWe, the Citizens!
LiberalismJoaquim Rocha Afonso[43] [44]
PPMPeople's Monarchist Party
MonarchismRight-wingGonçalo da Câmara Pereira[45] [46] [47] [48]
MASSocialist Alternative Movement
TrotskyismLeft-wingDisputed[49]
PURPUnited Party of Retirees and Pensioners
Pensioners' rightsCentreFernando Loureiro[50] [51]

Extinct parties

This list presents the parties and coalitions of the current Third Republic that were once recognized by the Portuguese Constitutional Court but ceased to exist. It is organized by political spectrum and alphabetical order (in Portuguese).

Far-left

Left-wing to far-left

Left-wing

Centre-left

Centre

Centre-right

Right-wing

Far-right

Historical parties

This list includes the defunct political parties that never reached the Third Republic, in chronological order.

Constitutional Monarchy (1834–1910)

First Republic (1910–1926)

Ditadura Nacional (1926–1933)

Estado Novo (1933–1974)

Although the Estado Novo was a dictatorship, with the National Union being legally the only party, the opposition was sometimes allowed to compete in (sham) elections; other parties were constituted underground or in exile.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.tribunalconstitucional.pt/tc/partidos.html?pesquisa=MRPP#PESQ001 Tribunal Constitucional – Partidos registados e suas denominações, siglas e símbolos
  2. Book: Freire, André. The Party System of Portugal. Oskar Niedermayer. Richard Stöss. Melanie Haas. Die Parteiensysteme Westeuropas. https://books.google.com/books?id=T6BA2dHeoS0C&pg=PA373. 2007. Springer-Verlag. 978-3-531-90061-2. 373.
  3. Book: Lisi, Marco. The Importance of Winning Office: The PS and the Struggle for Power. Anna Bosco. Leonardo Morlino. Party Change in Southern Europe. https://books.google.com/books?id=IbHdAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA50. 2007. Routledge. 978-1-136-76777-7. 50.
  4. http://www.tribunalconstitucional.pt/tc/partidos.html "Partidos registados e suas denominações, siglas e símbolos"
  5. Web site: Portugal. Parties and Elections in Europe. Wolfram. Nordsieck. 2019. 8 October 2019.
  6. Book: Lisi . Marco . Freire . André . The selection of political party leaders in Portugal . Jean-Benoit Pilet . William Cross . The Selection of Political Party Leaders in Contemporary Parliamentary Democracies: A Comparative Study . https://books.google.com/books?id=_2mvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA124 . 2014 . Routledge . 978-1-317-92945-1 . 124.
  7. Web site: Chega oficializa ligação à extrema direita europeia . www.sabado.pt . https://web.archive.org/web/20200702101151/https://www.sabado.pt/portugal/detalhe/chega-junta-se-ao-partido-europeu-de-le-pen-e-salvini . 2020-07-02 . pt.
  8. News: The Portugal Resident. Livre makes history in Portugal: not just first black woman MP, but first man in a skirt. 28 October 2019.
  9. News: Star Tribune. Portugal's Socialists win election, now eye alliances. 7 October 2019. 14 March 2021. 7 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191007204225/https://www.startribune.com/portugal-s-socialists-eye-alliances-after-election-win/562401722/. dead.
  10. News: Observador. Pastoral dos Ciganos considera racistas e ilegais declarações de André Ventura. 8 September 2020.
  11. Web site: Socialists victorious in Portuguese election – POLITICO. 6 October 2019.
  12. Web site: View of A Construção da Identidade dos Novos Partidos em Páginas Oficiais do Facebook . Proa.ua.pt . 13 April 2021. 2022-04-22.
  13. Web site: Restricted Access .
  14. https://books.google.com/books?id=xF3FBQAAQBAJ&dq=democratic+socialist+Left+Bloc&pg=PA1801 Radical left parties in Europe
  15. Web site: O que está a dividir o Bloco de Esquerda Ainda não percebi bem. Então quais são hoje as correntes dentro do BE?. Dinis. Rita. 29 August 2014. Observador. pt. What is dividing the Left Bloc Still don't get it. So what are the current tendencies inside the BE?. https://web.archive.org/web/20171114082029/https://observador.pt/explicadores/bloco-de-esquerda/09-ainda-nao-percebi-bem-entao-quais-sao-hoje-as-correntes-dentro-do-be/. 14 November 2017. live. 30 July 2018.
  16. Web site: fr. Risque pays du Portugal : Politique. Société Générale. 11 May 2019. 3 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181003181753/https://import-export.societegenerale.fr/fr/fiche-pays/portugal/le-risque-pays-politique?accepter_cookies=oui. dead.
  17. Web site: Portugal's Socialists lead election poll, but would not win majority. When the Socialists came to power in 2015, they won the parliamentary support of two left wing parties, the Left Bloc and the Communists.. Reuters. 31 July 2019.
  18. News: Reuters. Portugal president asks Socialist Costa to form government. 8 October 2019.
  19. https://europeanspring.net/ European Spring Webpage
  20. Web site: Rui Tavares recebe apoio da cúpula dos Verdes europeus . Maria Lopes . 23 May 2014 . 26 May 2014 . . pt.
  21. Web site: Portuguese socialists defend post-EU bailout austerity. The centre-right CDS-PP and PSD parties put forward the €800m/year idea.. EUobserver. 6 May 2019.
  22. Web site: "CDS is a right-wing party, period". Noticias ao Minuto. 23 January 2020.
  23. Web site: Anjos. Mafalda. 2019-06-06. Nem de esquerda nem de direita. 2021-01-19. Visão. pt-PT.
  24. Web site: SIC Notícias PAN quer integrar família dos Verdes na Europa. SIC Notícias. pt-PT. 2019-06-20. 2018-12-13. 2019-06-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20190620010241/https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2018-12-13-PAN-quer-integrar-familia-dos-Verdes-na-Europa. dead.
  25. Web site: Portugal. Parties and Elections in Europe. Wolfram. Nordsieck. 2019. 18 December 2019.
  26. News: Partido Ecologista Os Verdes. medium.com. 17 May 2018. 4 September 2018. pt.
  27. Web site: The PDR, new EDP member . 2015-11-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150721202836/http://pde-edp.eu/en/news/communiques/the-pdr-new-edp-member . 2015-07-21 . dead .
  28. Web site: 2024-03-10 . Fenómeno ADN: o partido que cresceu seis vezes mais (e ainda não parou) . 2024-03-29 . SIC Notícias . pt.
  29. In portuguese:"O R.I.R. é um partido político que nasceu com o propósito integrador de aproximar os cidadãos da política e vice-versa(...)Incluir os cidadãos nas decisões do bem comum, incluir o bem-estar e o equilíbrio nos objectivos económicos, incluir todas as raças e culturas nos espaços habitáveis e incluir toda a população nos privilégios do Século XXI" in http://partido-rir.pt/
  30. In portuguese: "O R.I.R adopta corno método de participação e actuação política “ouvir, aprender e propor” soluções participadas pelos vários saberes, por quem está directamente envolvido em diversas áreas fundamentais da sociedade desde a Academia, a Arte, o Engenho à vivência prática dos agentes económicos (empreendedores, investidores e assalariados)." in https://partido-rir.pt/sobre-o-r-i-r/
  31. Web site: Sobre o R.I.R. – RIR . Partido-rir.pt . 2022-02-21 . 2022-04-22.
  32. In portuguese: "Questionado na altura se o partido se identifica com a direita ou com a esquerda, Vitorino Silva defendeu que o RIR “é um partido 360 graus, porque o próprio nome diz incluir. " in https://tvi24.iol.pt/politica/partidos/constitucional-aceita-partido-rir-de-tino-de-rans
  33. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20180507040614/http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/madeira.html. 7 May 2018. 2015. Madeira/Portugal. Nordsieck. Wolfram. Parties and Elections in Europe. dead.
  34. Web site: TC aceita inscrição de partido Nova Direita após três rejeições por irregularidades . Lusa. PÚBLICO. pt. 2024-01-10.
  35. Web site: Forthomme . Claude . Volt Europa: An Electric Jolt to Wake Up Europe . Impakter . 27 February 2020 . 28 February 2019.
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  38. Tostes. Ana Paula. June 2009. Reasons for intolerance in integrated Europe. Dados. 52. 2. 335–376. 10.1590/S0011-52582009000200003. 0011-5258. free.
  39. Rocha. Frederico Pedroso. March 2014. A Direita Radical E As Eleições Europeias Em 2014: Nacionalistas Em Busca De Pontes. Relações Internacionais (R:I). 41. 63–79. 1645-9199.
  40. Book: Close, Caroline. 2019. The liberal party family ideology: Distinct, but diverse. Liberal Parties in Europe. https://books.google.com/books?id=RceHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT431. Close. Caroline. van Haute. Emilie. Routledge. 338–339. 9781351245487.
  41. Book: Tom Lansford. Political Handbook of the World 2013. 2013. SAGE Publications. 978-1-4522-5825-6. 1172.
  42. Web site: Novo partido de Pedro Santana Lopes vai chamar-se Aliança . SAPO 24 . pt . 18 August 2018.
  43. Web site: Investigador Joaquim Rocha Afonso eleito presidente do partido Nós, Cidadãos! – Observador.
  44. http://www.publico.pt/politica/noticia/nos-cidadaos-novo-partido-em-formacao-1624559 Nós, Cidadãos é o novo partido de centro-direita em formação
  45. Web site: Azores/Portugal. https://web.archive.org/web/20180507040437/http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/azores.html. 7 May 2018. 2016. Nordsieck. Wolfram. Parties and Elections in Europe. dead.
  46. Web site: Partido Popular Monárquico | EUROPEIAS 2014. Partido Popular Monárquico. 31 December 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121002035216/http://www.ppm.com.pt/#!europeias-2014/csln. 2 October 2012.
  47. Web site: Partido Popular Monárquico | Programa Político. Partido Popular Monárquico. 31 December 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121002035216/http://www.ppm.com.pt/#!programa/cl32. 2 October 2012.
  48. Web site: Monarchist Conference - Members. International Monarchist Conference. 31 December 2014.
  49. Web site: Declaração conjunta de MAIS (Brasil) e MAS (Portugal). Administrador. MAS. pt-pt. 2018-12-13.
  50. Web site: Partido Unido dos Reformados e Pensionistas quer concorrer às próximas eleições. Lusa. PÚBLICO. pt. 2019-10-16.
  51. Web site: TC > Jurisprudência > Acordãos > Acórdão 370/2015 .. www.tribunalconstitucional.pt. pt. 2019-10-16.