The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel by militants who were at the time with the Portuguese Socialist Action. The PS is a member of the Socialist International,Progressive Alliance and Party of European Socialists,and has eight members in the European Parliament within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group during the 10th European Parliament.
The Social Democratic Party is a liberal-conservative political party in Portugal that is currently the country's ruling party. Commonly known by its colloquial initials PSD,on ballot papers its initials appear as its official form PPD/PSD,with the first three letters coming from the party's original name,the Democratic People's Party. A party of the centre-right,the PSD is one of the two major parties in Portuguese politics,its rival being the Socialist Party (PS) on the centre-left.
Pedro Miguel de Santana Lopes is a Portuguese lawyer and politician,who is the current mayor of Figueira da Foz. He most notably served as prime minister of Portugal from 2004 to 2005.
Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas is a Portuguese media and political figure,who has,since the 1990s,been one of Portugal's leading conservative politicians. He was the leader of one of Portugal's right-wing parties,the CDS –People's Party (CDS-PP) from 1998 to 2005 and 2007–2016,on whose lists he was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in every legislative election between 1995 and 2015. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Portugal from 2013 to 2015,Minister of State and Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2013,and Minister of Defence from 2002 to 2005,all three times in coalitions of the PSD and his CDS-PP. Portas withdrew from politics in 2016.
Marinha Grande is a municipality in the Leiria District,Portugal. The population in 2021 was 39,032,in an area of 187.25 km². The city itself has a population of 32,330.
The 2005 Portuguese legislative election took place on 20 February. The election renewed all 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic.
Ricardo Augustus Guerreiro Baptista Leite is a Portuguese medical doctor,university professor,and politician. He is a third term Member of the Portuguese National Parliament and member of the Sintra City Council. He also served as member of the Cascais Town-Hall Assembly,between 2005 and 2021. Baptista Leite is the Head of Public Health at the Catholic University of Portugal.
Social Democratic Youth is the youth organisation of the Social Democratic Party of Portugal and it is commonly known by its initials,JSD. Founded by Francisco SáCarneiro,the JSD has become an essential basis of the PSD itself. Its activity is recognized in election campaigns,with a crucial position in terms of mobilization and as a "laboratory of ideas of the party". While defending the values affirmed by the Social Democratic Party,the JSD is a structure with its own identity and,therefore,works in an autonomous manner in respect to the party.
The Social Democratic Party is a political party in Brazil led by Gilberto Kassab and uniting dissidents from various political parties,especially the Democrats,Brazilian Social Democracy Party and Party of National Mobilization.
The 2019 Portuguese legislative election was held on 6 October 2019. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were contested.
Early legislative elections were held on 30 January 2022 in Portugal to elect members of the Assembly of the Republic to the 15th Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were up for election.
Local elections in Portugal were held on 26 September 2021. The election consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities:the election for the Municipal Chamber,whose winner is automatically elected mayor,similar to first-past-the-post (FPTP);another election for the Municipal Assembly;and an election for the Parish Assembly,whose winner is elected parish president. This last one was held separately in the more than 3,000 parishes around the country. In the 2021 election,12.3 percent of incumbent mayors,38 to be precise,were barred from running for another term:23 from the PS,11 from the PSD,3 from CDU and one from the CDS–PP.
Teresa Caeiro is a Portuguese lawyer and politician.
Sofia Galvão is a Portuguese lawyer specialising in real estate and planning matters. She is a prominent member of the Portuguese liberal-conservative Social Democratic Party,having been a vice-president,and has also served two terms as a Secretary of State in the Portuguese government.
Olga Silvestre is a Portuguese politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD),Silvestre was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2019 as a representative of the Leiria constituency. She was re-elected in 2022.
Sofia Matos is a Portuguese politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD),Matos was elected to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal in 2019 as a representative of the Porto constituency and re-elected in 2022,when she headed the PSD list for Porto.
Margarida Maria de Moura Alves da Silva de Almeida Saavedra is a Portuguese architect who,in the March 2024 election,was elected to be a deputy in the 16th Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and was elected to represent the Lisbon constituency.
Diva Nélia Capela de Jesus Ribeiro is a Portuguese politician and a mathematics teacher. In the 2024 Portuguese national election she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic as a representative of the right-wing CHEGA party.
Sofia Isabel Carreira is a Portuguese politician and museum curator. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD),she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal in March 2024 to represent the Leiria constituency.
Maria de Lurdes Breu was one of five women in Portugal known as "The Magnificent Five",who were the first women to serve as municipal mayors in the country,after elections in December 1976. She became mayor of Estarreja in the Aveiro District,being re-elected on four occasions and serving until the beginning of 1993.
