People's Monarchist Party (Portugal)

The Partido Popular Monárquico? / I, also abbreviated PPM to German Monarchist People's Party, is a Portuguese political party. The party was established on 23 May 1974 after the Carnation Revolution of monarchist set predecessor organizations and advocates for the restoration of the Braganza monarchy in Portugal. From 1979 to 1983 was the PPM, together with the Portuguese Partido Social Democrata (PSD ) and the CDS part of an electoral alliance of conservative parties called Democratic Alliance (AD) and represented from 1981 to 1983 with Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles in the government.

Since the dissolution of this alliance, the party was not represented in Parliament because they could not get enough votes on their own. It reached more than 0.7 percent of the vote in any national election.

In the parliamentary elections of 2005, the PPM did not occur as an independent party, but could accommodate two MPs on the List of Social Democrats, so the party was represented by two seats in the Portuguese National Assembly.

In regional elections in the Azores in 2008, the Royalist People's Party won to the surprise of many observers, a seat in the Assembly.

In the election year of 2009, the party went to both in the European elections as well as in the parliamentary elections with their own lists, but could not overcome the status of a splinter party.

The current head of the House of Braganza and Portuguese pretender Duarte III. Pio de Bragança true in some areas, not with the program of the party agree, that there is no connection between the party and him.

President of the PPM is Nuno Maria de Figueiredo Cabral da Camara Pereira, General Secretary Armando Carlos Ferreira.

Election results

• European elections 2009: 0.39 percent ( 0 mandates, 13,794 votes)
• General Election 2009: 0.27 percent ( 0 mandates, 15,090 votes)
• General Election 2011: 0.26 percent ( 0 mandates, 14,687 votes)