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Non-national parties are forbidden by the portuguese constitution and
electoral legislation, that only recently was revised to open up the
possibility of citizenʼs lists for local organs.
Jorge Candeias, 05 Mar 2003
There were authonomist/separatist movements in the past, but these
days, with the current status of autonomy, these
movements are practically gone.
Jorge Candeias, 04 Feb 2003
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
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
itʼs votes from the Azores (and also a bit from
Madeira too) in a percentage that I donʼt 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
Política XXI is now one of the members of the
Left Block. I donʼt know whatʼs
the flag of this Política XXI, if thereʼs 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 ʼ80s - early ʼ90s. It
was nicknamed ʼParty of the Retiredʼ, 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, ʼPSNʼ 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 ʼ80s 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
This party popped up in Denmark in 1987, and stood at
the general election that year. They only got some 5600
votes, got nobody elected, and died (more or less). I recall
the infinity symbol. They used the letter "H" more than the
symbol, but that is a part of the Danish electoral system:
each party has a letter (as long as less than 30 parties
stand), and that is what get most of the partiesʼ hype —
for obvious reasons.
Ole Andersen, 04 Aug 1999
In Portugal an Humanist party is under way (or already created
and legalized, I donʼt know), and their leadership gave a
press conference a while ago where the flag was seen.
Jorge Candeias, 03 Aug 1999
It is a very small party — they got about 1000 votes last time they
run (among some six million electors). This Humanist
Party “franchise” seems to be all over the world.
They are apparently envolved in things so varied as immigrant support,
promotion of occultism and animal rights.
António Martins, 24 Aug 2003
I believe that the flag of this party is orange with black (shadded
white) emblem and letters.
Jaume Ollé, 26 Aug 2001
There is a black and white image of the flag of the Partido
Humanista on the following site:
http://www.newhumanist.net/portugal/ph/.
Franc Van Diest, 26 Aug 2001
The Peopleʼs 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 ʼ90s,
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 itʼs 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
Flag of the Portuguese Section of the Amnesty International,
2nd and 6th photos down:
http://vanunu.planetaclix.pt/campanha.htm.
Francisco Santos, 26 May 2003
I came across an interesting story in an article published in the "local" supplement of the newspaper "Público" on May 2nd 2003, signed by Ângelo Teixeira Marques, with accompanyng black and white photo by Marco Maurício, showing this yearʼs mast raising (a very tall eucalyptus), already with the flag attached.
The story is as follows: to commemorate Labour Day, a meeting is held at Pousada de Saramagos, a village near Vila Nova de Famalicão, in northern Portugal. This is the initiative of José Magalhães, a retired union man, and takes place since the 70ʼs, when the attendence was far superior to the numbers seen these days.
The thing has its rituals: in the morning, an adecuate log is found «more or less with the permition of its owner», to quote the article. Then, a meter-deep hole is dug and the log is put there and raised without the help of mechanical means, only with arm-power. The firmness of the mast thus created is important because «if the flag falls, thatʼs a bad omen for the working class». The flag is red without any symbols, and the whole thing consists also of a few fireworks, the singing of one of the hymns of the anti-fascist revolution of April 25, 1974, Grândola Vila Morena and a lunch.
Still according to the article, thereʼs some level of controversy surrounding the happening and usually, a few days later, the mast is found taken down by somebody.
Jorge Candeias, 29 Jun 2003