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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 2025, the parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic are those elected by the Democratic Alliance (91 MPs, in which PPD/PSD has 89 seats and CDS–PP has 2 seats), Chega (60 MPs), the Socialist Party (58 MPs), the Liberal Initiative (9 MPs), LIVRE (6 MPs), the Portuguese Communist Party (3 MPs), the Left Bloc (1 MP), the People-Animals-Nature party (1 MP), and the Together for the People party (1 MP). One other party is represented in the legislature of one of the autonomous regions, the Legislative Assembly of the Azores.
Party | Ideology | Position | European Party | European Group | Leader | Ref. | |||
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PEV | Ecologist Party "The Greens" Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" | Left-wing | EGP | Not in European Parliament, previously G/EFA | Collective leadership | [8] [28] | |||
ADN | ![]() | National Democratic Alternative Alternativa Democrática Nacional | Far-right | ECPM (candidate) | Not in European Parliament | Bruno Fialho | [29] [30] | ||
RIR | ![]() | React, Include, Recycle Reagir, Incluir, Reciclar | Syncretic | None | Not in European Parliament | Márcia Henriques | [31] [32] [33] [34] | ||
VP | ![]() | Volt Portugal Volt Portugal | Centre to centre-left | Volt | Not in European Parliament | Inês Bravo Figueiredo Duarte Costa | [35] | ||
PCTP/MRPP | ![]() | Portuguese Workers' Communist Party Partido Comunista dos Trabalhadores Portugueses | Far-left | None | Not in European Parliament | Maria Cidália Guerreiro | |||
ND | ![]() | New Right Nova Direita | Right-wing | None | Not in European Parliament | Ossanda Liber | [36] | ||
PLS | ![]() | Liberal Social Party Partido Liberal Social | Centre to Centre-right | None | Not in European Parliament | José Cardoso | [37] | ||
PPM | ![]() | People's Monarchist Party Partido Popular Monárquico | Right-wing | ECPM | Not in European Parliament | Gonçalo da Câmara Pereira | [38] [39] [40] [41] | ||
NC | ![]() | We, the Citizens! Nós, Cidadãos! | Centre-right | None | Not in European Parliament | Joaquim Rocha Afonso | [42] [43] | ||
MPT | ![]() | Earth Party Partido da Terra | Centre-right | None | Not in European Parliament, previously EPP | Pedro Soares Pimenta | [44] [45] | ||
PTP | ![]() | Portuguese Labour Party Partido Trabalhista Português | Left-wing | None | Not in European Parliament | Raquel Coelho | [27] [46] | ||
MAS | Socialist Alternative Movement Movimento Alternativa Socialista | Far-left | None | Not in European Parliament | Gil Garcia | [47] | |||
A)T | ![]() | (A)TUA (A)TUA | Syncretic | None | Not in European Parliament | Rui Lima | [48] [49] [50] |
This list presents all the existing parties recognized by the Portuguese Constitutional Court. [51]
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).
This list includes the defunct political parties that never reached the Third Republic, in chronological order.
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