Earth Party

The Partido da Terra, also o Movimento Partido da Terra (MPT) to German movement, the Party of the earth, is an ecologically oriented, conservative small party in Portugal. The party was founded by Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles 1993 has set the top political goal of environmental protection and the conservation of existing resources, while also making the " social and individual health and well -being " are promoted. She strives for the protection of the Portuguese culture and their traditions and wants to strengthen the Lusophone world.

History

In 1993, former Minister of Agriculture Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles out from his self- founded Partido Popular Monárquico, he saw no way to enforce its environmental programmaticals in the right-wing conservative party. For this reason, the Movimento Partido he founded on 12 August 1993 da Terra ( Movement Party of the Earth). He is to this day still honorary president of the party, is currently Chairman John Rosas Baker.

With regard to their election results, the party was able to show some success lately. Through an electoral alliance with the liberal- conservative Portuguese Social Democrats represented since 2005, two MPs the party in the Assembleia da República, they are members of the PSD fraction. 2007 the MPT for the first time in the regional elections in Madeira and reached from the state 3173 votes (2.25 percent), and despatched an MP in the Regional Assembly .. However, the party is not represented portugal far, only seven of the 14 districts may they produce district associations.

On April 29 announced the MPT that they would compete together with the pan- European party Libertas 2009 European elections. The party of the Irish businessman Declan Ganley cooperates Europe with various conservative parties partly because she could not always achieve the required number of signatures for a ballot status. For the common electoral alliance joined the chairman of the party, Simão José Graça, itself. A success could not achieve this alliance. The place in the majority of constituencies List conjunction with the Humanist Party on the parliamentary elections in September 2009 was granted with less than 0.3 % of the valid votes no success.

At international level, the MPT member of the party organization WEP.

Election results

  • Parliamentary elections 1995: 8235 votes (0.14 percent, 0 seats)
  • Parliamentary elections in 1999: 19,938 votes (0.37 percent, 0 seats)
  • Parliamentary elections in 2002: 15,540 votes (0.28 percent, 0 seats)
  • Regional elections in the Azores 2004: 293 votes (0.28 percent, 0 seats)
  • Parliamentary elections in 2005: started on lists of the PSD ( 2 seats)
  • Regional elections in Madeira 2007: 3173 votes (2.25 percent, 1 mandate )
  • Regional elections in the Azores 2007: 684 votes (0.76 percent, 0 seats)
  • European elections 2009: 0.66 percent ( 0 mandates, 23,415 votes)
  • General Election 2009: in the list associated with the Humanist Party as MPT -PH 0.22 percent ( 0 mandates, 12,307 votes), z.T. only as the MPT 0.06 percent ( 0 mandates, 3,240 votes)
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