Coligação Democrática Unitária

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Coligação Democrática Unitária
PCP-PEV.svg
Jerónimo de Sousa.jpg
Party leader Jerónimo de Sousa
founding 1987
Alignment Communism
green politics
eco-socialism
Colours) blue
Parliament seats
12/230
Number of members 60,484 (PCP)
approx. 6,000 (PEV)
MEPs
2/21
EP Group GUE / NGL
Website www.cdu.pt

The Coligação Democrática Unitária ( CDU ; German  Democratic Unity Coalition ) is a Portuguese electoral alliance made up of Portuguese Communists (PCP), Greens (PEV) and the political movement Intervenção Democrática (ID). Through its member parties, it has a communist , green and eco-socialist orientation.

history

The Partido Comunista Português (PCP), the Partido Ecologista Os Verdes (PEV) and the Intervenção Democrática movement founded the electoral alliance in order to have better chances against the Portuguese socialists who have been strong since the Carnation Revolution and to guarantee the Greens a participation in the Portuguese parliament with the name Coligação Democrática Unitária in 1987. In the same year the electoral alliance took part in the by-elections for the European Parliament and the Portuguese parliamentary elections .

Since the founding of the electoral alliance, the parties have never stood individually again. The Communist Party is the leading one within the alliance and also has the majority of the seats in parliament. Nevertheless, the Greens always get at least two places. Within the Portuguese parliament ( Assembleia da República ), the CDU is treated like a parliamentary group, the two parties usually act as one, but are always mentioned separately in official publications. Within the CDU, the ID no longer plays a role at all.

Election results

Map of the strongholds of the CDU in the local elections in 2005; the CDU is particularly elected in Lisbon, the area around the capital and in the Alentejo

Local elections

At the local level, the CDU is represented almost everywhere, both communists and the Greens occupy the first places. The strongholds of the CDU are mainly around Lisbon and in southern Portugal ( Setúbal peninsula , Alentejo ).

Election year Number of
votes 		%
Votes 		Number of
municipal councils 		+/- Number of
mayors 		+/-
1989 633,682 12.8
253/1997
50/305
1993 689.928 12.8
246/2015
   7
49/305
   1
1997 643,956 12.0
236/2021
   10
41/305
   8
2001 557.481 10.6
202/2044
   34
28/308
   13
2005 590,598 11.0
203/2046
   1
32/308
   4
2009 537.329 9.7
174/2078
   29
28/308
   4
2013 552.506 11.1
213/2086
   39
34/308
   6
2017 489.189 9.5
171/2074
   42
24/308
   10

Source : Portuguese Electoral Commission

Assembleia da República

Election year Number of
votes 		%
Votes 		Number of
seats 		+/-
1987 685.109 12.2
31/250
1991 501.840 8.8
17/230
   14
1995 504.007 8.6
15/230
   2
1999 483.716 9.0
17/230
   2
2002 379.870 6.9
12/230
   5
2005 433,369 7.5
14/230
   2
2009 446.174 7.9
15/230
   1
2011 440,850 7.9
16/230
   1
2015 444.319 8.3
17/230
   1
2019 332.473 6.33
12/230
   5

Source : Portuguese Electoral Commission

Note: In 1991 the number of MPs was reduced from 250 to 230.

European Parliament

Election year Number of
votes 		%
Votes 		number of
seats 		+/-
1987 646.640 11.50
3/24
1989 594.961 14.41
4/24
   1
1994 339.283 11.19
3/25
   1
1999 357,575 10.32
2/25
   1
2004 309,406 9.09
2/24
   0
2009 379.787 10.64
2/22
   0
2014 416.925 12.69
3/21
   1
2019 228.156 6.9
2/21
   1

Source : Portuguese Electoral Commission

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Portuguese Electoral Commission