National Renovator Party

The Partido Nacional Renovador (PNR ) [ pɐɾ'tiðu nɐsiu'naɫ ʁɨnuvɐ'ðoɾ ] to German in about National Renewal Party, is a nationalist, right-wing party in Portugal. It developed from the earlier Movimento Nacional de Acção and the Partido Renovador Democrático, the former party of the first democratic president after the Carnation Revolution, António Ramalho Eanes. Since June 2005, José Pinto Coelho is their Chairman.

End of the eighties lost temporarily third largest Portuguese party, the Partido Renovador Democrático former President António Ramalho Eanes, massively more important and members, so this was on the brink of dissolution. Founded in 1985, right-wing Movimento Nacional de Acção took advantage of this opportunity and took over the party and its remaining structures by a mass defection. In 1999, the party renamed itself Partido Nacional Renovador and positioned itself strongly in the right margin in the otherwise very left -dominated Portuguese political landscape. Since the party congress in June 2005, the José Pinto Coelho studied Designer leads the right-wing party, particularly their judgment " aos Portugal Portugueses " ( "Portugal the Portuguese " ) is known. The party is also affiliated with a youth organization, the Juventude Nacionalista ( " Nationalist Youth" ).

The Partido Nacional Renovador always stands by her public appearances, whether by election posters or interviews of the Chairman. Lately reinforced the party especially their criticism of the Portuguese immigration laws and called for an immediate stop immigration. Should be mentioned here especially with the elections at the Praça Marquês de Pombal, that again and again hit the headlines. Partial tried the Lisbon City Council to prevent this, which the party had, brought even more attention in the opinion of individual media. In addition, it comes to anti-Semitic again, anti-Muslim and anti-woman remarks.

For several years, the party is also working on a European level with other right-wing and extreme right-wing parties, including the National Front (France ) and the NPD ( Germany ). As regards foreign policy, the PNR occurs for a "Europe of nations " and calls for a strength role of individual nation states. Similarly, the PNR rejects the possible accession of Turkey, as the country is not European in terms of its geography, culture and ethnic groups.

Despite their, as compared to other Portuguese small parties, large notoriety could not yet reflected in the election results this. Since its reconstitution in 1999, the party won a single seat in parliament.

Election results

  • General Election 2002: 0.09 percent ( 0 mandates, 4,712 votes)
  • European elections 2004: 0.25 percent ( 0 mandates, 8,405 votes)
  • General Election 2005: 0.16 percent ( 0 mandates, 9,374 votes)
  • European elections 2009: 0.37 percent ( 0 mandates, 13,039 votes)
  • General Election 2009: 0.22 percent ( 0 mandates, 11,628 votes)
  • General Election 2011: 0.32 percent ( 0 mandates, 17,620 votes)
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