The Republican Evolutionist Party ( pt, Partido Republicano Evolucionista, PRE), commonly known as the Evolutionist Party, was a political party in
Portugal
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The party was established on 24 February 1912 as the result of a split in 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.Democratic Party and the Republican Union.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1548 It won 26 seats in the House of Representatives and nine seats in the Senate in the 1915 parliamentary elections, emerging as the second-largest faction after the Democratic Party.
The party boycotted the 1918 elections,Nohlen & Stöver, p1557 but returned to run in the 1919 elections, in which it won 38 House seats, regaining its place as the second-largest party.
After Almeida became
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in 1919, the party merged with the Republican Union to form the Republican Liberal Party during the same year.