Popular Unity Party ( pt, Partido de Unidade Popular) was a

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. PUP was founded in December 1974 by the Mendes fraction of the

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. The PUP published a newspaper called ''Averdade'' (''The Truth''). It rejected

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and sought to create a

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of poor workers and peasants. After the 1975 elections PUP was renamed Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee (''Comité Marxista-Leninista Português''). In 1976 CMLP merged with the

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and the

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to form the Portuguese Communist Party (Reconstructed).

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