Democratic Renewal Party (Portugal)
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Democratic Renewal Party
Partido Renovador Democrático |
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| Founder | Ramalho Eanes |
| Founded | 10 July 1985 |
| Dissolved | 12 April 2000 |
| Succeeded by | National Renovator Party |
| Ideology |
Centrism, Social liberalism, Populism |
| Political position |
Centre Centre-left |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group |
European Democratic Alliance(1986-89) Socialist Group (1989-1991) Rainbow Group (1991-1994) (had one MEP, Pedro Canavarro, elected as part of the Socialist Party lists. In 1991 he crossed the floor to join the Rainbow Group) |
| Colours | Green |
The Democratic Renewal Party (Portuguese: Partido Renovador Democrático, pronounced: [pɐɾˈtiðu ʁɨnuvɐˈðoɾ dɨmuˈkɾatiku], PRD; also Democratic Renovator Party) was a political party in Portugal, founded in 1985 with the political support of the until-then independent President of the Republic, Ramalho Eanes, and lasting until 2000. At the time of its foundation, it was meant to "moralize Portuguese political life" and the party positioned itself in the political centre. Its first leader was Hermínio Martinho.
A short time after its foundation, the PRD profited from the dissolution of the Portuguese parliament, occupied at the time by a grand coalition between the Socialist Party (PS) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD), from both of which the PRD included dissidents (for example, on the PS side, José Medeiros Ferreira, former foreign Minister in a Mário Soares government and also a supporter of the centre-right Democratic Alliance as a dissident of the PS, and on the Social Democratic side, Joaquim Magalhães Mota, a co-founder of the PSD). Due to a disastrous economic policy, Ramalho Eanes dissolved the parliament and called for a new election where the newly founded PRD surprisingly won 18% of the vote and got 45 MPs, becoming the third major party. The election did not give the majority of the seats to any party, so the party with the most votes, the Social Democratic Party, formed a minority government with PRD tactical support, sending the PSD's Socialist former coalition partners into opposition.
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