Partido Social Democrata

This article deals with the Portuguese party. On the party in East Timor, see Partido Social Democrata (East Timor) ; on the party in Brazil see Partido Social Democrático .

Partido Social Democrata
Party leader	Rui Rio
Secretary General	José Matos Rosa
founding	May 6, 1974
Headquarters	Lisbon
newspaper	Povo Livre
Alignment	Conservatism , neoliberalism , Christian democracy
Colours)	orange
Parliament seats	77/230 ( Assembleia , 2019 )
International connections	Christian Democratic International (CDI-IDC)
MEPs	6/21
European party	European People's Party (EPP)
EP Group	European People's Party (EPP)
Website	www.psd.pt

The Partido Social Democrata ( PPD-PSD ) [ 'paɾtidu su'sjaɫ dəmu'kɾatɐ ] listen ^{? / i} ( German Social Democratic Party ) is a conservative-liberal Portuguese party. It was founded on May 6, 1974 by Francisco Sá Carneiro , Francisco Pinto Balsemão , Emídio Guerreiro and Joaquim Magalhães Mota under the name Partido Popular Democrático ( PPD ). Along with the Partido Socialista, it is one of the two people's parties in Portugal . The three arrows in the party logo represent the three basic social democratic values: freedom, equality, solidarity.  

The PSD was the first Portuguese party to achieve an absolute majority in the 1987 elections after the Carnation Revolution, led by Aníbal Cavaco Silva . Since 1976, when the new Portuguese constitution was introduced, the PSD has been involved in nine out of seventeen governments.

On May 31, 2008, Manuela Ferreira Leite was elected as the new party leader through the primary election of the members. She replaced Luís Filipe Menezes , who had announced his resignation on April 17, 2008. Ferreira Leite was elected with around 38% of the vote. She had three male opponents. In 2010 she was replaced by Pedro Passos Coelho , who won the parliamentary elections the following year and served as Portuguese Prime Minister until 2016.

The PSD is the publisher of the newspaper Povo Livre (Free People).

Traditional strongholds of the party are the north of Portugal (e.g. the administrative districts of Bragança and Vila Real ) and the autonomous region of Madeira .

List of party leaders

• Francisco Sá Carneiro (1974–1978 and 1978–1980)
• António Sousa Franco (1978)
• José Menéres Pimentel (1978)
• Francisco Pinto Balsemão (1981-1983)
• Nuno Rodrigues dos Santos (1983-1984)
• Carlos Mota Pinto (1984–1985)
• Aníbal Cavaco Silva (1985–1995)
• Fernando Nogueira (1995–1996)
• Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (1996-1999)
• José Manuel Barroso (1999-2004)
• Pedro Santana Lopes (2004-2005)
• Luís Marques Mendes (2005-2007)
• Luís Filipe Menezes (2007-2008)
• Manuela Ferreira Leite (2008-2010)
• Pedro Passos Coelho (2010-2018)
• Rui Rio (since 2018)

Web links

Commons : Partido Social Democrata  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Portuguese)
• Website Mudar (German 'change')

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manuela Ferreira Leite vence directas no PSD ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. [Manuela Ferreira Leite wins the PSD direct elections]. In: Público , May 31, 2008