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The coalition PPD-CDS-PPM
was called Democratic Alliance
(AD - Aliança Democrática) won a few elections, and ruled the
country for some years.
Jorge Candeias, 04 Sep 1997
The Communist Party of Portuguese Workers / Reorganizational Movement of the
Portuguese Proletariate (PCTP/MRPP - Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores
Portugueses / Movimento Reorganizativo do Proletariado Português) is a maoist
party, very active in the 70s, especially with big mural paintings (they got known
as Meninos Rabinos Pintam Paredes, that is «Nasty Boys Painting Walls»)
Their flag is very similar to the PCP one: a red field with a big yellow sickle
and hammer, if I recall correctly, in the canton, and PCTP/MRPP in yellow below.
I seem to remember that they have no star, but this is not certain.
Jorge Candeias, 26 Sep 1997
Most of the FLA members regrouped in the P.D.A.,
Partido Democrático do Atlântico, a national party (because of a
constitutional article that prohibits regional parties) that gets nearly all
it’s votes from the Azores (and also a bit from
Madeira too) in a percentage that I don’t think ever
reached 5% in the islands themselves. This party uses a white flag with the
party logo in yellow and blue centered. The logo is too complex to describe
adecuately.
Jorge Candeias, 10 Aug 1999
The Ecologist Party - The Greens (PEV - Partido Ecologista os Verdes) is
also a relative newcomer, this ecologist party goes to elections in
coalition with the communists,
and elects 2-3 members of parliament regularly. Their flag is a
green field (of course) with a yellow and brown sunflower in the center.
Jorge Candeias, 05 Sep 1997
Política XXI is now one of the members of the Left
Block. I don’t know what’s the flag of this Política XXI, if there’s one.
Jorge Candeias, 20 May 1999
The Party of National Solidarity (PSN - Partido da Solidariedade
Nacional) is again a party that arose in the late ’80s - early ’90s. It
was nicknamed ’Party of the Retired’, because their main objective was to
defend the interests of elderly people. In two elections, PSN was able to
elect 1 member of parliament. Their flag was similar to that of
Antigua and Barbuda, with the hoist and fly triangles
in green and the central in blue. In the central triangle there was a
yellow sun and below the sun, ’PSN’ in black. I think they already
desappeared also.
Jorge Candeias, 05 Sep 1997
The Party of the Democratic Renewal (PRD - Partido Renovador
Democrático) is a party that arose in the late ’80s originally to fill
the gap between PS and PCP, but very centered in the personality of the
President at the time (António Ramalho Eanes), our last military and
independent president. In the first elections in which the party
participated, it got more than 20% of the votes and the third
parlamentary group, but soon lost its support, electing less than 10
members of parliament in the next elections and none in the next,
dissolving itself shortly after that. If I recall correctly, they
used a logo-on-a-bedsheet flag in white with a symbol in red and
green in the center and "PRD" below the symbol also in red
and green. The symbol featured stylized scales.
Jorge Candeias, 05 Sep 1997
The People’s Democratic Movement / Electoral Democratic Center (MDP/CDE,
Movimento Democrático Popular / Centro Democrático Eleitoral) is a
party that was formed shortly
after the revolution, and descends from the Electoral Democratic Commission
(CDE - Comissão Democrática Eleitoral), an oposition movement during
the dictatorship, that united all the oposition forces of the time to run
to (better said, to do as much of a campaign that they where authorized to
do in) the very undemocratic elections that took place back then. In the
first elections after the revolution, they where able to elect a small
parlamentary group, and in ulterior elections joined the
communists in a coalition,
APU, always electing some members
of parliament. In the early ’90s,
they broke the coalition, concurred to the next elections alone, failed
to elect members of parliament and disappeared. Their flag was a red field
with a stylized root (4 root “branches” that joined in a trunk) in the
centre.
Jorge Candeias, 05 Sep 1997
MDP-CDE was not that small — it managed to elect 2 MPs on it’s own in the
very first elections held after the fall of the fascist regime. The flag was
red with a black symbol consisting of a sort of root (a "trunk" and 4 rays
in the lower part of the "trunk") within a square with the sigla below. My
father has one such flag. It later got into a deep internal crisis and split
in two movements: one civic movement called Democratic Intervention (that
remained tied with the communists) and the party
itself that later changed the name to "Política XXI" and
is now one of the members of the above mentioned Left Bloc.
Jorge Candeias, 05 Sep 1997
In Portugal there is a monarchic party, the PPM,
and there is a number of monarchics that do not see themselves reflected in
the party. The flag of PPM is very seldom seen, but a modern rendition of
the pre-1910 portuguese national flag appears in
great numbers whenever the monarchics get together. Recent occasions were:
the marriage of D. Duarte, the present dinastic representative of the
portuguese royal house (Casa de Bragança) and the baptism of his two
childs so far.
Jorge Candeias, 11 Feb 1998
Quite right. And also 1667-1816 flags appear
(royal arms on plain white), related to the so called "integralist" branch.
António Martins, 18 Feb 1998
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