Democratic Renewal Party (Portugal)

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Democratic Renewal Party
Partido Renovador Democrático
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The Democratic Renewal Party (

Ramalho Eanes, and lasting until 2000. At the time of its foundation, it was meant to "moralize Portuguese political life" and the party positioned itself in the political centre. Its first leader was Hermínio Martinho
.

History

A short time after its foundation, the PRD profited from the dissolution of the Portuguese parliament, occupied at the time by

a grand coalition between the Socialist Party (PS) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD), from both of which the PRD included dissidents (for example, on the PS side, José Medeiros Ferreira, former foreign Minister in a Mário Soares government and also a supporter of the centre-right Democratic Alliance as a dissident of the PS, and on the Social Democratic side, Joaquim Magalhães Mota, a co-founder of the PSD). Due to a disastrous economic policy, Ramalho Eanes dissolved the parliament and called for a new election where the newly founded PRD surprisingly won 18% of the vote and got 45 MPs, becoming the third major party.[12]
The election did not give the majority of the seats to any party, so the party with the most votes, the Social Democratic Party, formed a minority government with PRD tactical support, sending the PSD's Socialist former coalition partners into opposition.

In the local elections of 1985, however, the party began to have difficulties, achieving only 5% of the vote and few seats. In the following presidential election in 1986, the party supported Salgado Zenha along with the Portuguese Communist Party, but its candidate did not manage to reach the second round.

In 1987, the party made a decision that would lead to its dissolution, supporting a

censure motion, along with the Communists and the Socialists, that led to the fall of the first government of Aníbal Cavaco Silva, which took office after the legislative elections of 1985.[6] In the subsequent legislative election
, the party lost most of its support, almost disappearing from parliament, losing 38 of its 45 MPs. Meanwhile, Ramalho Eanes had replaced Hermínio Martinho as leader of the party, a post he too left after the electoral disaster.

In the

National Renovator Party.[13]

Election results

Assembly of the Republic

Election Leader Votes % Seats +/- Government
1985 Hermínio Martinho 1,038,893 17.9 (#3)
45 / 250
 Confidence and supply
1987 António Ramalho Eanes 278,561 4.9 (#4)
7 / 250
 Decrease38 Opposition
1991 Pedro Canavarro 35,077 0.6 (#8)
0 / 230
 Decrease7 No seats


Local elections

Election year # of overall
votes 		% of overall
vote 		# of overall
councillors won 		+/- # of overall
mayors elected 		+/- Notes
1985 224,161 4.7 (#5)
49 / 1,975
3 / 305
1989 38,565 0.8 (#7)
4 / 1,997
 Decrease 45
0 / 305
 Decrease 3
1993 1,456 0.0 (#12)
0 / 2,015
 Decrease 4
0 / 305
 Steady 0
1997 1,487 0.0 (#17)
0 / 2,021
 Steady 0
0 / 305
 Steady 0

European Parliament

Election Leader Votes % Seats +/-
1987 José Medeiros Ferreira 250,158 4.4 (#5)
1 / 24
1989 Pedro Canavarro with PS
1 / 24
 Steady0
1994 Manuel Vargas Loureiro 5,941 0.2 (#13)
0 / 25
 Decrease1

References

  1. ^ Chilcote, Ronald H. (2010), The Portuguese Revolution: State and Class in the Transition to Democracy, Rowman & Littlefield, p. 118
  2. Tribunal Constitucional
    . Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  3. ^ Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, vol. 5, Gale Research, 1995, p. 339
  4. ^ Leston-Bandeira, Cristina; Freire, André (2005), "Internalising the Lessons of Stable Democracy: The Portuguese Parliament", Southern European Parliaments in Democracy, Routledge, p. 81
  5. ^ Gallagher, Tom (1989), "The Portuguese Socialist Party: the pitfalls of being first", Southern European Socialism: Parties, Elections, and the Challenge of Government, Manchester University Press, p. 25
  6. ^ a b Leston-Bandeira, Cristina (2004), From Legislation to Legitimation: The Role of the Portuguese Parliament, Routledge, pp. 125–126
  7. ^ Freire, André (2006), "The Party System of Portugal", Die Parteiensysteme Westeuropas, VS Verlag, p. 373
  8. ^ Amorim Neto, Octávio (2003), "Portugal: Changing Patterns of Delegation and Accountability under the President's Watchful Eyes", Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies, Oxford University Press, p. 563
  9. ^ Puhle, Hans-Jürgen, Mobilizers and Late Modernizers: Socialist Parties in the New Southern Europe, p. 295
  10. ^ Boissieu, Laurent de. "Élections européennes Portugal". Europe Politique (in French). Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  11. ^ Deputados Beirôco - Capucho, Parlamento Europeu Gabinete de Informação em Portugal (scroll down until the section on Pedro Canavarro)
  12. ^ Leston-Bandeira, Cristina (2004), From Legislation to Legitimation: The Role of the Portuguese Parliament, Routledge, pp. 22, 126
  13. ^ Hainsworth, Paul (2008), The Extreme Right in Western Europe, Routledge, p. 64

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