Força de Unidade Popular

The Popular Unity Force (Portuguese: Força de Unidade Popular, FUP) was a Portuguese political party, founded in 1980 and dissolved in 2004.^[1]

Popular Unity Force Força de Unidade Popular
Leader	Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Founded	28 March 1980
Dissolved	31 March 2004
Armed wing	Forças Populares 25 de Abril (1980–1987)
Ideology	Marxism Revolutionary socialism Otelismo
Political position	Far-left
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The party was founded by Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho "to promote popular unity among the Portuguese people for the construction of Socialism" and "to practice solidarity with all the peoples of the world who struggle for their liberation and by Socialism."^[2]

In 1980, Otelo was a candidate in the Portuguese presidential elections.^[3] Otelo finished in third in the elections with 85,896 (1.4%) votes.^[4]

References

1. Comissão Nacional de Eleições. "Sorteio das listas apresentadas - Eleição para a Assembleia da República 1985" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 November 2012.
2. Constitutional Tribunal of Portugal (14 May 1987). "ACÓRDÃO N.º 231/04" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
3. Constitutional Tribunal of Portugal (14 May 1987). "ACÓRDÃO N.º 231/04" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 January 2022.
4. "CNE Resultados" (in Portuguese). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2018.