Partido da Terra
The Partido da Terra , also Movimento o Partido da Terra (MPT), in English Movement of the Party of the Earth , is an ecologically oriented, rather conservative small party in Portugal . The party founded in 1993 by Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles has set itself the highest political goal of protecting the environment and conserving existing resources, while promoting “social and individual health and well-being”. She advocates the protection of Portuguese culture and its traditions and wants to strengthen Lusophonie worldwide.
history
In 1993, the former minister Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles resigned from the Partido Popular Monárquico party he had founded , as he saw no way of implementing his ecological programs in the right-wing conservative party. For this reason he founded the Movimento Partido da Terra (Movement Party of the Earth) on August 12, 1993 . He is still Honorary President of the party to this day, with John Rosas Baker as chairman.
The party has recently had some success with its election results. Through an electoral alliance with the liberal-conservative Portuguese Social Democrats, two parliamentarians represented the party in the Assembleia da República from 2005 , they were members of the PSD parliamentary group. In 2007, the MPT took part in the regional elections in Madeira for the first time and achieved 3173 votes (2.25 percent) from a standstill and sent a representative to the regional assembly. Nevertheless, the party is not represented throughout Portugal, only in seven out of 14 districts it has district associations.
For the 2009 European elections, the MPT cooperated with the pan-European, EU-skeptical Libertas party . The leader of the party, Pedro Quartin Graça Simão José, ran as the top candidate for the joint electoral alliance. The alliance came to 0.7%. For the parliamentary election in September 2009 , the MPT ran in the majority of the constituencies on a list with the Humanist Party . The alliance got 0.2% of the vote. In the 2011 parliamentary elections , the MPT came to 0.4%.
In the regional elections in Madeira in 2011 , the MPT lost slightly to 1.9%, but was able to defend its mandate.
In the 2014 European elections , the MPT surprisingly won 7.1% of the vote and moved into the European Parliament with two MPs - António Marinho e Pinto and José Inácio Faria . The deputies joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group of. Marinho e Pinto left the MPT in September 2014 and later founded the Partido Democrático Republicano . The MPT joined the ALDE party in November 2014 , which it left in December 2016. Faria left the ALDE Group and joined the Group of the European People's Party (EPP).
At the international level, the MPT is a member of the political party association WEP .
Election results
Parliamentary elections
| year | be right | proportion of | Mandates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 8,235 | 0.14% | - |
| 1999 | 19,938 | 0.37% | - |
| 2002 | 15,540 | 0.28% | - |
| 2005 | Psd | - | 2 |
| 2009 | 15,547 HP | 0.28% | - |
| 2011 | 22,705 | 0.42% | - |
| 2015 | 22,596 | 0.42% | - |
Regional elections
- Regional elections in the Azores 2004: 293 votes (0.28 percent, 0 seats)
- Regional elections in Madeira 2007: 3,173 votes (2.25 percent, 1 mandate)
- Regional elections in the Azores 2007: 684 votes (0.76 percent, 0 seats)
- Regional elections in Madeira 2011: 2,839 votes (1.98 percent, 1 mandate)
European elections
- European elections 2009 : 0.66% (0 seats, 23,415 votes)
- 2014 European elections : 7.14% (2 seats, 234,603 votes)
- European elections 2019 : did not take part in the election; 0.00% (0 seats, 0 votes)
Web links
- MPT website (Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry at the Portuguese Constitutional Court (port.)
- ↑ a b c Resultados finais: PSD-Madeira vence com 64.2 por cento ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , [Final result: PSD-Madeira wins with 64.2 percent], Público , May 6, 2007
- ↑ Libertas and MPT announce European election partnership ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , [Libertas and MPT announce European election alliance], Libertas press release
- ↑ MPT concorre às europeias em conjunto com partido Libertas ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , [MPT runs for European elections with Libertas], TSF Rádio Notícias, April 26, 2009
- ↑ ALDE Group, Country: Portugal ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Results of the 1995 parliamentary elections on the CNE website (port.)
- ↑ Results of the 1999 parliamentary elections on the CNE website (port.)
- ↑ Results of the 2002 parliamentary elections on the CNE website (port.)
- ↑ Official election results 2009 (port.) ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Results of the regional elections in the Azores 2004 on the CNE website (port.)
- ↑ Results of the 2008 regional elections ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , RTP.pt , October 19, 2008
- ↑ Official election result 2009 (port.) ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Official election results 2014 (port.)
- ↑ Europeias 2019 - Resultados Globais. Retrieved June 23, 2019 (Portuguese).
