Portuguese Workers' Communist Party

The Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses - Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado ( [ pɐɾ'tidu kumu'niʃtɐ duʃ tɾɐbɐʎɐ'doɾɨʃ puɾtu'gezɨʃ / muvi'mẽtu ʁiɔɾgɐnizɐ'tivu you you pɐɾ'tidu pɾulɨtɐɾi'adu ], PCTP / MRPP ) German Communist Party of the Portuguese working people - movement to reorganize the party of the proletariat, is a Portuguese Maoist party. The party was founded in 1970 reached its peak just before and after the Carnation Revolution in 1974. Nowadays it is an insignificant small party in the Portuguese left -dominated political landscape.

The origins of the party go to the Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado ( MRPP ) back, which was founded on September 18, 1970, its General Secretary was Arnalo Matos. The movement was at that time popular, especially among students and young workers in the Lisbon area. She was known back then especially for their Soviet- inspired wall pictures. At this time the MRPP also had his best-known members such as the former Portuguese Prime Minister and current EU Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the presidential candidate of the Bloco de Esquerda 2001, Fernando Rosas.

Immediately after the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, the MRPP of their greatest adversaries, the Communist Party of PCP, the infiltration by the CIA was accused. This was done for reasons of defamation, but were both MRPP and the Socialist Party against the propagated and chosen by the PCP path of the Moscow- communism in the Portuguese policy. After the Congress on December 26, 1976, the Partido Comunista MRPP in dos Trabalhadores Portugueses named - Movimento Reorganizativo do Partido do Proletariado ( PCTP / MRPP ) to continue under the leadership of Arnaldo Matos.

The PCTP / MRPP never played a special role after 1974 She has never been represented in the Portuguese Parliament and achieved -. Compared to the major parties - only very small share of the vote. Today the lawyer Garcia Pereira leads the party. Currently, the party has to deal mainly with an amended party law, which prescribes a minimum number of members of 5000. Furthermore, the left-wing party competition in Portugal is very strong. In addition to the Socialist Party, which currently forms the government, both the Communists, the Greens and the Left Bloc are represented in Parliament.

The PCTP / MRPP publishes its own party newspaper, the " Luta Popular " (Eng. people's struggle ). The student organization Federação dos Estudantes Marx - Lenin Followings Followings (German Marxist-Leninist student organization ) has now resolved.

Results

  • General Election 1976: 0.66 percent ( 0 mandates, 36,200 votes)
  • General Election 1979: 0.89 percent ( 0 mandates, 53,268 votes)
  • General Election 1980: 0.59 percent (0 mandates, 35,409 votes)
  • General Election 1983: 0.37 percent ( 0 mandates, 20,995 votes)
  • General Election 1985: 0.34 percent ( 0 Mandates, 19 943 votes)
  • General Election 1987: 0.37 percent ( 0 mandates, 20,800 votes)
  • European elections 1987: 0.35 percent ( 0 mandates, 19,475 votes)
  • European elections 1989: 0.64 percent ( 0 Mandates, 26 682 votes)
  • 1991 general election: 0.85 percent ( 0 Mandates, 48 542 votes)
  • European elections 1994: 0.79 percent ( 0 Mandates, 24 022 votes)
  • General Election 1995: 0.70 percent ( 0 Mandates, 41 137 votes)
  • General Election 1999: 0.74 percent ( 0 Mandates, 40 006 votes)
  • European elections 1999: 0.88 percent ( 0 Mandates, 30 446 votes)
  • General Election 2002: 0.66 percent ( 0 Mandates, 36 193 votes)
  • European elections 2004: 1.07 percent ( 0 Mandates, 36 294 votes)
  • General Election 2005: 0.84 percent (0 Mandates, 48 186 votes)
  • European elections 2009: 1.2 percent (0 Mandates, 43 141 votes)
  • General Election 2009: 0.93 percent ( 0 Mandates, 52 784 votes)
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