General election in Portugal 1987
The parliamentary elections in Portugal in 1987 took place on July 19.
After the PRD canceled its support for the minority government under Aníbal Cavaco Silva, which had been in office since 1985 , the center-right government of the PSD came to an end. Logically, the newly elected president in 1986, the socialist Mário Soares , dissolved parliament on April 28, 1987 and called new elections.
Politically, both the government and the president had come to an understanding and on January 1, 1986, the country was incorporated into the EC. Although a ten-year transition period was negotiated, joining the EU brought a number of unpopular austerity measures. Above all, the leftists made up of communists , the Greens and the splinter group “ Intervenção Democrática ”, formed in the Coligação Democrática Unitária (CDU - Democratic Unity Coalition) , tried to take advantage of their dissatisfaction with the government's austerity measures.
On the other hand, in the camp of the center-left, the election campaign for the 1986 presidential elections with various candidates had further deepened the gap between the socialists around Soares and the Democratic Renewal Party (PRD) led by the former president of the country António Ramalho Eanes . This also applied to the personal relationship between Soares and Ramalho Eanes. It was therefore no surprise that after the failure of the Cavaco Silva government, a mathematically possible coalition government made up of the PRD and socialists did not come about.
Under the leadership of Cavaco Silva, a neoliberal economic policy became the basis of its political action in the PSD. With reference to its economic expertise, the party achieved a landslide victory in the general election. With a vote increase of more than 20%, the PSD was the first party since the Carnation Revolution in 1974 to achieve an absolute majority and was thus able to form a government without a coalition partner. Cavaco Silva, who ruled until 1995, was the new Prime Minister.
After its devastating electoral defeat in 1985, only the Socialist Party was able to maintain its position, with a small increase in votes, at what for it was a very low level. All other political directions suffered some drastic losses, with the left-wing coalition CDU losing the least. The right-wing Democratic and Social Center (CDS) only had four seats, and the surprise party of the 1985 election, the PRD, lost 38 of its 45 seats.
The PDS government Cavaco Silva began its work on August 17, 1987 and remained in office for the entire electoral term until October 31, 1991.
The turnout was 71.57%. The choice was made according to the D'Hondt method .
Election results
| Political party | be right | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | ||
| Partido Social Democrata | 2,850,784 | 50.2 | +20.3 | 148 | +60 | |
| Partido Socialista | 1,262,506 | 22.2 | +1.4 | 60 | +3 | |
| Coligação Democrática Unitária | 689.137 | 12.1 | −3.4 | 31 | −7 | |
| Partido Renovador Democrático | 278,561 | 4.9 | −13.0 | 7th | −38 | |
| Centro Democrático e Social | 251.987 | 4.4 | −5.6 | 4th | −18 | |
| União Democrática Popular | 50,717 | 0.9 | −0.4 | - | - | |
| Partido Socialista Revolucionário | 32,977 | 0.6 | −0.0 | - | - | |
| Movimento Democrático Português | 32,607 | 0.6 | - | - | - | |
| Partido da Democracia Cristã | 31,667 | 0.6 | −0.1 | - | - | |
| Partido Popular Monárquico | 23,218 | 0.4 | - | - | - | |
| Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses | 20,800 | 0.4 | +0.1 | - | - | |
| Partido Comunista (Reconstruído) | 18,544 | 0.3 | +0.1 | - | - | |
| Partido Operário de Unidade Socialista | 9,185 | 0.2 | −0.6 | - | - | |
| Blank ballot paper | 50,135 | 0.9 | +0.1 | |||
| Invalid ballot | 73,533 | 1.3 | −0.4 | |||
| total | 5,676,358 | 100.0 | 250 | |||
| Eligible voters | 7,930,668 | |||||
| voter turnout | 71.6% | |||||
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See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deputados e Grupos Parlamentares ( Memento of the original of July 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Resultados Eleitorais , on eleicoes.cne.pt, accessed on January 30, 2012
Web links
- Comissão Nacional de Eleições Official website of the Electoral Commission
- Politics and government Wir-in-Portugal.de
