Movimento Democrático Português
The Movimento Democrático Português - Comissão Democrática Eleitoral (MDP / CDE) (German Portuguese Democratic Movement - Democratic Election Commission) was a Portuguese party in Lisbon that existed from 1969 to 1994.
history
founding
The party was founded informally in 1969 when opposition members of the Estado Novo dictatorship organized electoral lists as alternatives to the regime’s unity party, the União Nacional . To this end, they founded the CDEs, the Comissões Democráticas Eleitorais , in German about Democratic Election Commissions, in order to enable the opposition to participate in the parliamentary elections in October 1969. Marcelo Caetano , the successor to the dictator Salazar , who resigned in 1968 , had triggered a political thaw that encouraged the opposition forces. The CDEs became a rallying movement for the opposition forces in the country who were on the left of the regime, even if they did not achieve any success in the usually unfree elections in 1969.
legalization
After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the party that had existed informally until then was officially legalized as Movimento Democrático Português - Comissão Democrática Eleitoral (MDP / CDE), based on the CDEs. In the first free elections after the Carnation Revolution, the MDP / CDE entered parliament with 4.14% and 5 seats. From 1979 she joined the electoral alliance Aliança Povo Unido (German: Alliance United People), together with the Portuguese Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Português , PCP), with which she had close ties since 1969 as part of the resistance. From 1983 the newly founded Green Party of Portugal ( Partido Ecologista Os Verdes ) also belonged to the APU. After increasing differences, the electoral alliance dissolved in 1987. In the 1987 parliamentary elections , the MDP / CDE, now standing alone, received only about 0.6% of the votes and won no mandate. In 1989 she joined the popular composer, conductor and author António Victorino de Almeida as head of the electoral list for the European elections, where she was the sixth strongest party in Portugal with 1.37% of the vote.
Dissolution and succession
After persistently low successes in parliamentary and local elections in Portugal, the MDP / CDE dissolved in 1994. As early as 1987, some party members split off and founded the grouping ID - Associação de Intervenção Democrática (German: Association for Democratic Participation), which has since entered the field with some candidates via the PCP / Os Verdes (called Coligação Democrática Unitária ) electoral lists . After the dissolution of the MDP / CDE, the Política XXI , a socialist party that received 0.41% of the vote in the 1994 European Parliament elections , was founded, also with some former PCP members , and the Bloco de Esquerda party with other groups in 1998 founded and absorbed into it.
Individual evidence
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