Democratic Renewal Party (Portugal)

Partido Renovador Democrático (Eng. about Democratic Renewal Party, PRD) was a moderate center -left party in the Portuguese political spectrum.

History

Birth and ascent

It was founded in 1985, with significant strategic direction of President António Ramalho Eanes, and its explicit requirement for preservation of moral principles in the increasingly changing values ​​of state politics. The General and President Eanes had dissolved, the Portuguese Parliament, as with the privatization and deregulation policies of the PS / PSD government ( 1983-85 ) unrest in the political landscape of Portugal emerged after more and more of the introduced after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, economic policy, especially social and legal innovations, qualified or been withdrawn. In the following general election in 1985 the PRD was with 17,92 % of the votes right off the bat the third strongest party.

Descent and resolution

It succeeded the PRD after 1985 not to develop a compelling format in the public eye, and was able to gain any solid electoral base. With their substantial participation in the overthrow of the PSD minority government in 1987, the PRD made ​​the following elections will bring about even. In the parliamentary elections 1987, the PRD received just 4.9 % of the vote and lost its importance in the country's politics. In the parliamentary election in Portugal 1991, she was only 0.6 %, and thus lost their last seven of the original 45 seats.

In 2000, the party broke up finally, after right-wing forces that had increasingly taken with mass crossings of the resolved small right-wing party, Movimento Nacional de Acção, the PRD. They founded the Partido Nacional Renovador in the sequence.