The Portugal Ahead ( pt, Portugal à Frente, PàF) was a
conservative
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political
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and
electoral alliance
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in
Portugal
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formed by the
Social Democratic Party
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Active parties
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(PPD/PSD) and
CDS – People's Party
The CDS – People's Party ( pt, CDS – Partido Popular, derived from ''Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular'', CDS–PP) (CDS-PP).
History
The alliance was formed as the Portugal Alliance (''Aliança Portugal'') for the
2014 European Parliament election, in which the alliance won 27.7% of the popular vote and 7 of Portugal's 21 seats in the European Parliament, sitting with the
European People's Party Group
The European People's Party Group (EPP Group) is a centre-right political group of the European Parliament consisting of deputies (MEPs) from the member parties of the European People's Party (EPP). Sometimes it also includes independent MEP ...
. The alliance was later extended for the
2015 legislative election under the name Portugal Ahead.
In the legislative election on 5 October 2015, the PSD/CDS-PP joint list received 36.9% of the vote and returned 102 seats in the
Assembly of the Republic, with the PSD electing 5 deputies on standalone lists in
Madeira
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and
Azores
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.
Although the coalition won the elections, and surprised many analysts and pundits, the left parties together had a majority in Parliament, and opted to negotiate a
confidence-and-supply agreement, thus refusing to allow for a second PSD/CDS-PP cabinet. For the first time in Portuguese democracy the
Socialist Party
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, the second most voted political force in the elections, negotiated with the
BE, the
PCP and the
PEV PEV or PeV may refer to:
* Ecologist Party "The Greens" (), a Portuguese eco-socialist political party
* Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland (), a Protestant Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland
* Petaelectronvolt (PeV), a mea ...
a formation of a new government.
Following the fall of the short-lived
20th Constitutional Government, the "natural" extinction of the coalition was declared on 16 December 2015 by Passos Coelho: "No formal act is necessary to put an end to it".
Election results
Assembly of the Republic
European Parliament
As Portugal Alliance (''Aliança Portugal'', AP)
Notes
References
External links
Official website(Portuguese)
2014 establishments in Portugal
2015 disestablishments in Portugal
CDS – People's Party
Defunct political party alliances in Portugal
Political parties disestablished in 2015
Political parties established in 2014
Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
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