New Democracy Party (Portugal)

The Partido da Nova Democracia (PND ) [ pɐɾ'tidu dɐ ' nɔvɐ dɨmukɾɐ'siɐ ] to German "party of New Democracy ", is a Portuguese small party, the conservative - liberal cleavage of the Centro Democrático e Social - Partido Popular ( CDS -PP) was born. Its chairman is Manuel Monteiro, who from 1992 to 1997 headed the CDS -PP. The party was founded in 2003, the first congress was held in Vila Nova de Famalicão in October 2003. There, the delegates decided the party manifesto titled Uma Ideia de Portugal ( " An idea of ​​Portugal "). The PND is also a party newspaper out with the title DemocraciaLiberal ( " liberal democracy ").

The party defined by its Euro-skepticism, but advocates continue to remain in Portugal in the European Union. She is a member of the European party Europeans United for Democracy. The amendments also require the PND a liberal economic policy, a reform of the Portuguese legal system and a new constitution with a significant strengthening of the President.

The party first came to Europe in the 2004 election, in which she, however, did not win a mandate with 33,833 votes (0.99 %). In the Portuguese parliamentary elections in 2005, the PND won 40,358 votes (0.70 %) and also won a mandate in the Assembleia da República. Your biggest success so far won the PND in case of anticipated elections to the regional parliament of the Portuguese Atlantic island of Madeira in May 2007: won with 2928 votes (2.08 percent) a mandate. 2011 could be the result on 4825 votes ( 3.27 %) and to defend the mandate.