Pessoas - Animais - Natureza

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Pessoas - Animais - Natureza
speaker André Silva, spokesman for the party's permanent political commission
founding May 22, 2009
Headquarters Lisbon
Alignment Animal Rights
Policy Green Policy
Pacifism
Colours) Blue green
Parliament seats
4/230
( 2019 )
MEPs
0/21
( 2019 )
European party Animal Politics EU
Website pan.com.pt

Pessoas - Animais - Natureza ( PAN ; People - Animals - Nature ) is a small Portuguese party . Above all, she advocates the rights of animals and nature conservation.

The party was founded on May 22, 2009 under the name Partido pelos Animais (PPA; "Party for the Animals") and on January 13, 2011 as Partido pelos Animais e pela Natureza (PAN; "Party for Animals and Nature") ) registered. The philosopher and writer Paulo Borges became the first chairman . In September 2014 it took its current name.

Political positions

Above all, it advocates better environmental protection and the limitation of climate change and is thus close to the classic issues of Western European green parties. She also calls for harsher penalties for cruelty to animals ; She wants to abolish zoological gardens, bullfights, horse races and carousels with live animals.

The party does not try to fit into the classic left-right party scheme, but since entering the Portuguese parliament in 2015, it has mainly voted with the ruling socialists and the tolerant groups of the left-wing bloc and the communists. Apart from one abstention in the first budget vote of the Costa I cabinet , the PAN MP André Silva voted in all three other budget votes in favor of the government bill. In return, the government included individual proposals from the party in the budget - including financial incentives for the purchase of electric bicycles, measures to reduce plastic consumption and the hiring of nutritionists in the national health care system SNS. As a result, in the run-up to the Portuguese parliamentary elections in 2019, there was speculation that PAN would tolerate a socialist minority government.

Election results

Election poster at Praça Marquês de Pombal in Lisbon on which the party advertises its political successes: animal-free circuses, sign-speaking staff in emergency rooms and a deposit on disposable plastic bottles

The PAN ran for the first time in the 2011 parliamentary election and immediately won 1.04% of the vote. In the regional election in Madeira in the same year, the PAN received 2.13% of the vote and was able to win a seat in the regional parliament.

In the parliamentary elections in October 2015 , the party was the fifth strongest force with 1.39% of the vote and won a seat in the Assembleia da República in the Lisbon constituency . André Silva moved in for the party, but remained non-attached within parliament and did not join any parliamentary group.

In the 2019 European elections, the party also won a mandate for the first time with 5.08 percent and sent its first listener Francisco Guerreiro to the European Parliament. On the evening of the election, Guerreiro announced that he would join the group The Greens / EFA . The two MPs from the other animal welfare parties ( Human Environment Animal Welfare Party , Partij voor de Dieren ) joined the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left . In 2020 Francisco Guerreiro resigned from the PAN.

In the 2019 parliamentary elections , the party won significantly more votes: In total, the party moved into parliament with 4 members and thus established itself as a political force.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The EURO ANIMAL 7th Animal Welfare Party , accessed on June 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Isabel Tavares, Pedro Marques: Francisco Guerreiro: "Os jovens estão interests na política, not estão é interests na partidarização". In: Sapo24.pt. May 20, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Helena Pereira: “Geringonça” PS-PAN? Yes funciona. In: Público. May 27, 2019, Retrieved May 29, 2019 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Manuel Pestana Machado: António Costa. Convergência com BE e PCP tem sido “boa amizade”, mas é “insuficiente para casamento”. In: Observador.pt. May 27, 2019, Retrieved May 29, 2019 (Portuguese).
  5. ^ Regionais 2011 ( Portuguese ) In: eleicoes.mj.pt . Ministry of Justice of Portugal. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
  6. ^ Há um novo novo partido no Parlamento. O que defende o PAN? In: Dinheiro Vivo (Online), October 5, 2015.
  7. ↑ Sofia Neves: Francisco Guerreiro: “Os resultados do PAN not foram uma surpresa para nós”. Retrieved May 29, 2019 (Portuguese).
  8. ↑ Francisco Guerreiro Eurodeputado sai do PAN por “divergências políticas” com direcção. In: Público. June 16, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 (Portuguese).