Portuguese Democratic Movement

The Movimento Democrático Português - Comissão Democrática Eleitoral (MDP / CDE) (German Portuguese Democratic Movement - Democratic Election Commission ) was a Portuguese party, which was from 1969 to 1994.

History

Foundation

The party was founded in 1969 informally, as the Estado Novo opposition dictatorship electoral lists as alternatives to the Unity Party of the regime, the União Nacional, organized. They founded to the CDEs that, in order to allow comissões Democráticas Eleitorais to about German Democratic election commissions in the parliamentary elections in October 1969, the opposition a turnout. Marcelo Caetano, the successor to the retiring dictator Salazar in 1968, had triggered a political thaw, through the saw encouraging the opposition forces. The CDEs have been doing for the collective motion of the opposition forces in the country, which were left of the regime, even if they achieved any success at the usually non-free elections in 1969.

Legalization

After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the hitherto existing informal party officially legalized as Movimento Democrático Português - Comissão Democrática Eleitoral (MDP / CDE), starting from the CDEs. In the first free elections after the Carnation Revolution, the MDP / CDE moved with 4.14% and 5 seats in the parliament. In 1979 she appeared in the electoral alliance Aliança Povo Unido (German: Allianz Vereintes people ) that together with the Portuguese Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Português, PCP), to which it had close relations since 1969 as part of the resistance. In 1983 the newly formed Green Party of Portugal ( Partido Ecologista Os Verdes ) of the APU belonged to. After increasing differences, the coalition dissolved in 1987. In the parliamentary elections in 1987, the now alone An incoming MDP / CDE received only about 0.6 % of the vote and won no mandate. In 1989, she appeared with the popular composer, conductor and author António Victorino de Almeida as the head of the electoral list for the European elections, where it was 1.37 % of the votes sixth- strongest party in Portugal.

Resolution and succession

After persistently low electoral successes in national and local elections in Portugal, the MDP / CDE disbanded in 1994. (: Democratic Participation German club about ) founded the ( Coligação Democrática Unitaria called ) takes up since then with some candidates on election lists the PCP / Os Verdes Associação Democrática de Intervenção - As early as 1987, some party members had split off and the group ID. After dissolution of the MDP / CDE founded, with some former PCP members who Política XXI, a socialist party that 0.41% of votes received in elections to the European Parliament in 1994, and with other groups in 1998, the party Bloco de Esquerda founded and endowed them.