United People Alliance

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United People Alliance
Aliança Povo Unido
Leader Álvaro Cunhal
Founded14 April 1978
Dissolved1987
Preceded by Electoral Front United People
Succeeded by Unitary Democratic Coalition
Ideology Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Green politics
Eco-socialism
Colours
  •   Red
  •   Green
Member parties Portuguese Communist Party
Portuguese Democratic Movement
Ecologist Party "The Greens"

The United People Alliance (Portuguese : Aliança Povo Unido or APU) was an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and the Portuguese Democratic Movement (MDP-CDE). After 1983, the Ecologist Party "The Greens" also joined. [1]

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The coalition was formed in 1978 in order to run for the next legislative election and split up after the breakaway and implosion of the MDP-CDE in 1987. After that, the PCP started to run in coalition with the Ecologist Party "The Greens" in the Democratic Unity Coalition.

Electoral results achieved by APU

Assembly of the Republic

Election Assembly of the Republic GovernmentSizeNotes
Votes %±pp Seats won+/−
1979 1,121,37419.0%Increase2.svg 4.61
47 / 250
Increase2.svg7Opposition3rdNew coalition. Variation in votes and seats from PCP.
1980 1,000,97517.0%Decrease2.svg2.0
41 / 250
Decrease2.svg6Opposition3rd
1983 1,024,47518.2%Increase2.svg1.2
44 / 250
Increase2.svg3Opposition3rd
1985 893,21615.6%Decrease2.svg2.6
38 / 250
Decrease2.svg6Opposition4th

Local elections

ElectionLocal electionsSizeNotes
Votes %±pp Seats won+/
1979 1,021,48620.5%Increase2.svg2.8
316 / 1,900
Increase2.svg483rdNew coalition. Variation in votes and seats from FEPU.
1982 1,061,49220.7%Increase2.svg0.2
316 / 1,909
Steady2.svg02nd
1985 942,14719.4%Decrease2.svg1.3
303 / 1,975
Decrease2.svg33rd

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References

  1. "Movimento Ecologista Português-Partido Os Verdes (MEP-PV)" [Portuguese Ecologist Movement-Os Verdes Party (MEP-PV)]. Comissão Nacional de Eleições (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 January 2018.