This article lists political parties in Portugal. The Portuguese political scene has been dominated by the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party since the 1974 Carnation Revolution although there are several important minor parties (discussed below).

As of 2024, the parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic are the Democratic Alliance (80 MPs), Socialist Party (78 MPs), the Chega party (50 MPs), the Liberal Initiative (8 MPs), the Left Bloc (5 MPs), the Unitary Democratic Coalition (4 MPs), the FREE party (4 MPs), and the People-Animals-Nature party (1 MP). Several other parties are represented in the legislatures of the autonomous regions, the Legislative Assembly of the Azores and the Legislative Assembly of Madeira.

General overview

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Political posters in 1975.
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Livre campaign poster for the 2015 elections.
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Left Bloc campaign poster for the 2015 elections.
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Liberal Initiative campaign poster for the 2019 elections.
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PCTP/MRPP campaign poster in 2014.

This list presents all the existing parties recognized by the Portuguese Constitutional Court.[1]

National political parties

Parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic and/or the European Parliament

Parties without representation in the Assembly of the Republic or the European Parliament

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Party Main ideology Position Leader Ref.
PEV
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Ecologist Party "The Greens"
Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes"
Eco-socialism Left-wing Collective leadership [5][28]
ADN National Democratic Alternative
Alternativa Democrática Nacional
Traditional conservatism Far-right Bruno Fialho [29][30]
RIR React, Include, Recycle
Reagir, Incluir, Reciclar
Universalism Syncretic Márcia Henriques [31][32][33][34]
JPP Together for the People
Juntos Pelo Povo
Regionalism Centre Lina Pereira [35]
ND New Right
Nova Direita
National conservatism Right-wing Ossanda Liber [36]
PCTP/MRPP Portuguese Workers' Communist Party
Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses
Anti-revisionism Far-left Maria Cidália Guerreiro
VP Volt Portugal
Volt Portugal
Pro-Europeanism Centre to
centre-left
Ana Carvalho
Duarte Costa
[37]
E Rise Up!
Ergue-te!
Portuguese nationalism Far-right José Pinto Coelho [38][39][40][41]
MPT Earth Party
Partido da Terra
Green conservatism Centre-right Pedro Soares Pimenta [42][43]
A Alliance
Aliança
Personalism Centre-right Jorge Nuno Sá [44]
PTP Portuguese Labour Party
Partido Trabalhista Português
Democratic socialism Centre-left Amândio Madaleno [35]
NC We, the Citizens!
Nós, Cidadãos!
Liberalism Centre-right Joaquim Rocha Afonso [45][46]
PPM People's Monarchist Party
Partido Popular Monárquico
Monarchism Right-wing Gonçalo da Câmara Pereira [47][48][49][50]
MAS
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Socialist Alternative Movement
Movimento Alternativa Socialista
Trotskyism Far-left Disputed[b] [52]
A)T (A)TUA
(A)TUA
Pensioners' rights Syncretic Rui Lima [53][54][55]
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Extinct parties

This list presents the parties and coalitions of the current Third Republic that were once recognized by the Portuguese Constitutional Court but ceased to exist. It is organized by political spectrum and alphabetical order (in Portuguese).

Far-left

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Logo of Communist Electoral Front (Marxist-Leninist), FEC(ML).
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Logo of Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization, OCMLP.

Left-wing to far-left

Left-wing

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Logo of Politics XXI, PXXI.

Centre-left

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Logo of Democratic Renewal Party, PRD.

Centre

Centre-right

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Logo of Party of the Christian Democracy, PDC.
  • Democratic Alliance - AD (Aliança Democrática)
  • Association for the Defense of the Interests of Macau - ADIM (Associação para a Defesa dos Interesses de Macau)
  • Portuguese Party of the Regions - PPR (Partido Português das Regiões)

Right-wing

Far-right

Historical parties

This list includes the defunct political parties that never reached the Third Republic, in chronological order.

Constitutional Monarchy (1834–1910)

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Logo of Portuguese Socialist Party, PSP.

First Republic (1910–1926)

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Logo of Monarchist Cause, CM.

Ditadura Nacional (1926–1933)

Estado Novo (1933–1974)

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Logo of National Union, UN.

Although the Estado Novo was a dictatorship, with the National Union being legally the only party, the opposition was sometimes allowed to compete in (sham) elections; other parties were constituted underground or in exile.

See also

Notes

  1. Some sources state that People Animals Nature (PAN) is neither on the left nor the right.[24]
  2. The leadership of MAS is currently under a legal dispute between Renata Cambra and Gil Garcia.[51]

References

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