Portugal pro vida
Portugal pro Vida (PPV), in German "Portugal for life", is a small Portuguese party. It was founded in 2009; the constitutional court responsible for party admissions confirmed the founding on July 1, 2009. The party is assigned to the right to life movement and advocates social and family policy goals that it takes from the Christian social doctrine . The party leader was Luís Botelho Ribeiro.
The party advocates “the unrestricted right to life” and understands this primarily as the fight against abortion on various political levels. Accordingly, it aims to revise the Portuguese abortion law passed in 2007 . She is also against easing divorce law and against same-sex marriage, which was introduced in 2010 . Furthermore, the party wants to ensure that euthanasia continues to be prohibited and that parents are given a more active role and stronger codecision rights in connection with school sex education . With regard to civil rights, the party wants the right to vote without age restrictions and calls for a possibility for taxpayers to determine what their money should be used for.
The party was initially unsuccessful in elections. When she ran for the 2009 parliamentary elections for the first time , she received 0.15 percent of the vote, that is 8,533 votes in absolute terms. In addition to three other small parties, it is one of the splinter parties that were able to achieve fewer than 10,000 votes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official confirmation (327/09) of the founding of the party by the Constitutional Court (Portuguese)
- ↑ Maria Lopes: Dec à procura de um deputado ( Memento of September 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), [Ten in search of an MP], Público , September 13, 2009
- ↑ http://eleicoes.cne.pt/raster/index.cfm?dia=27&mes=09&ano=2009&eleicao=ar
Web links
- Official website of Portugal pro Vida (Portuguese)