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 nine members in the European Parliament within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group during the 9th European Parliament. It was the governing party of Portugal between November 2015 and April 2024,subsequently winning the 2019 and 2022 legislative elections.
The Social Democratic Party is a liberal-conservative political party in Portugal. 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.
The CDS –People's Party is a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Portugal. It is characterized as being between the centre-right and right-wing of the political spectrum. In voting ballots,the party's name appears only as the People's Party,with the abbreviation CDS–PP unchanged.
Álvaro Barreirinhas Cunhal was a Portuguese communist revolutionary and politician. He was one of the major opponents of the dictatorial regime of the Estado Novo. He served as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) from 1961 to 1992.
Carlos Alfredo de Brito,GCIH is a Portuguese politician. He was born in Portuguese Mozambique but went with his family to Alcoutim,in Algarve,Portugal when he was 3 years old. He joined the illegal Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) during the corporatist,authoritarian New State regime (1932-1974),by whom he was imprisoned.
JoséÁlvaro Machado Pacheco Pereira,GCL is a Portuguese political commentator,historian and politician. He is a member of the center-right Social Democratic Party.
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the 19th president of Portugal,from 9 March 2006 to 9 March 2016,and as prime minister of Portugal,from 6 November 1985 to 25 October 1995. His 10-year tenure was the longest of any prime minister since Salazar,and the longest for a freely elected prime minister in Portugal's republican history. He was the first Portuguese prime minister to win an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system. He is best known for leading Portugal into the European Union.
The 2009 Portuguese legislative election was held on 27 September,to renew all 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic. The Socialist Party,led by incumbent Prime Minister JoséSócrates,won the largest number of seats,but didn't repeat the overall majority they gained in 2005.
Abortion laws in Portugal were liberalized on April 10,2007,allowing an elective abortion to be provided if a woman's pregnancy has not exceeded its tenth week. There is a three-day waiting period for abortions. President Aníbal Cavaco Silva ratified the law allowing abortion,recommending nevertheless that measures should be taken to ensure abortion is the last resort. Despite the liberalization of the laws,as of a 2011 survey,many doctors were refusing to perform abortions –which they are allowed to do under a conscientious objection clause. Abortions at later stages are allowed for specific reasons,such as risk to woman's health reasons,rape and other sexual crimes,or fetal malformation;with restrictions increasing gradually at 12,16 and 24 weeks.
Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho is a Portuguese politician and university guest lecturer who was the 117th prime minister of Portugal,in office from 2011 to 2015. He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) between 2010 and 2018.
The 2015 Portuguese legislative election was held on 4 October. All 230 seats of the Assembly of the Republic were in contention.
The 2019 Portuguese legislative election was held on 6 October 2019. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were contested.
The Portuguese local elections of 2001 took place on 16 December. The elections consisted of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities,the election for the Municipal Chambers,whose winner is elected mayor,another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assembly,whose winner is elected parish president. This last was held separately in the more than 4,200 parishes around the country.
Regional elections were held on 22 September 2019 to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of Madeira in Portugal. All 47 members of the Assembly were up for election.
The 2020 Azorean regional election was held on 25 October 2020,to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores. All 57 members of the assembly were up for election.
The Liberal Initiative,often simply IL is a liberal political party in Portugal. Founded in 2017,it is currently led by Rui Rocha. The party sits on the centre-right of the political spectrum and has been described as being on the political right by academics and journalists.
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.
João Fernando Cotrim de Figueiredo is a Portuguese businessman and Liberal Initiative politician. He was the party's first member of the Assembly of the Republic,for Lisbon,in October 2019. He was the leader of the party between October 2019 and January 2023,during which the party won eight seats in the 2022 election.
Maria Helena do Rego da Costa Salema Roseta is a Portuguese architect,specialising in improvements to poorer neighbourhoods,and a politician who was a member of the Assembly of the Republic and President of the Lisbon Municipal Assembly and Mayor of Cascais.
Snap legislative elections were held on 10 March 2024 to elect members of the Assembly of the Republic to the 16th Legislature of Portugal. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were up for election. The elections were called in November 2023 after Prime Minister António Costa's resignation following an investigation around alleged corruption involving the award of contracts for lithium and hydrogen businesses.
