The Democratic Leftwing Republican Party ( pt, Partido Republicano Esquerdista Democrático, PRED) was a
political party
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in
Portugal
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, led by José Domingues dos Santos (a former Prime Minister). It was founded in 1925 by leftwing dissidents of the
Portuguese Republican Party
The Portuguese Republican Party (, ) was a Portuguese political party formed during the late years of the constitutional monarchy that proposed and conducted the substitution of the monarchy with the Portuguese First Republic.Wheeler, Douglas L. Republican Portugal: A Political History, 1910-1926 '. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. p. 269
Followers of the party were generally nicknamed ''canhotos''. This term was used in contrast to the established PRP, whose followers were nicknamed ''bonzos''.