The CDS – People's Party (, derived from ''Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular'', CDS–PP)
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and

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political party in Portugal. It is characterized as being between the

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and

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of the political spectrum. In voting ballots, the party's name appears only as the People's Party, with the

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CDS–PP unchanged. The party was founded on 19 July 1974 during the

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. In its first democratic elections in 1975, the CDS-PP won 16 seats out of 230 – increasing to 42 in the 1976 legislative election. The party entered a short-lived coalition with the

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(PS) before joining the Democratic Alliance (AD). The party has been involved in

coalitions with the

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(PSD) from 1980 to 1983 and again from 2002 to 2005. In the 2009 legislative election, the party won 21 seats, its most since the 1985 election, and increased it to 24 in 2011, leading to it forming a

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with the PSD. The party is a member of the

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(EPP) and the

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(IDU). The party also has autonomous organisations which share its political beliefs, the People's Youth and the Federation of Christian Democratic Workers. After a disastrous result in the 2022 general elections, which left the party with no seats in the Assembly of the Republic for the first time ever since its founding, Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos resigned as president; he was replaced by MEP Nuno Melo in the 29th National Congress of the Party.

History

Foundation

The CDS, Democratic Social Center, was founded on 19 July 1974 by Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Paulo Lowndes Marques, Adelino Amaro da Costa, Basílio Horta, Vítor Sá Machado, Valentim Xavier Pintado, João Morais Leitão and João Porto. By that time, Portugal was living an unstable political moment: instability, violence and great social tensions were evident after the

held on 25 April of the same year. The then CDS declared itself as a party rigorously at the

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of the

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, but by then it already counted with a major slice of Portuguese right-winger in its affiliations. On 13 January 1975, the leaders of CDS delivered at the Supreme Court of Justice the necessary documentation to legalise the party. The first congress was held on 25 January 1975, at the Rosa Mota Pavilion,

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city, which was interrupted by a siege from

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protesters.

First years of opposition

After 25 March 1975, a regime centred in social matters, state control of the economy and military leadership began its efforts to dominate the nation, which summed up with the COPCON (a post-revolutionary military organisation founded in 1974) and the constant attacks perpetrated on the western social democrat model, led the CDS to declare itself officially as an opposition party. Its 16 deputies cast the only votes against the Socialist-influenced Constitution of 1976, on 2 April. In the legislative election of 1976, the CDS achieved its objectives by having 42 deputies elected and so surpassing the

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(PCP).

The Democratic Alliance

In 1979, the CDS proposed a coalition with the

(PSD) and the People's Monarchist Party (PPM). The proposal brought about the creation of the Democratic Alliance (AD), headed by Francisco Sá Carneiro, which won the general elections of 1979 and 1980. In the AD governments, the CDS was represented by five ministers and ten state secretaries, with the president of the party, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, being nominated to the offices of Deputy Prime Minister and

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(later nominated Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister). On the night of 4 December 1980, Sá Carneiro and his Minister of National Defence, Adelino Amaro da Costa, were among those who died in a plane crash. Diogo Freitas do Amaral became caretaker prime minister until the formation of a new government, which Francisco Pinto Balsemão headed. This latter administration collapsed on 4 September 1981, after the resignation of Freitas do Amaral (both from the cabinet and from the party presidency). As a result, the Democratic Alliance ended.

An opposition of 20 years

After the collapse of the AD, the party looked for a new leader and new direction. Freitas do Amaral's successors were Francisco Lucas Pires (1983-1986) and

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(1986-1988), who, when having been unable to stop the party's negative performance, did not stand for re-election. Freitas do Amaral returned as party president, during a period characterised by the electoral success of the PSD, with the leadership of

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, to lead a rump of four deputies (later five) in parliament. In 1992, a new generation took over the party and in March of that year. At the party's 10th Congress, the former president of the Centrist Youth (the then-youth organisation of the CDS), Manuel Monteiro, was elected to the presidency. A year later, at an extraordinary congress, the title People's Party ("Partido Popular") was added to the party's official name in an effort to emulate the Spanish party of the same name. Freitas do Amaral left the party in the same year. In 1993, the CDS-PP was expelled from the

(EPP), both for rejecting the

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and therefore being not pro-integrationist enough and for not paying due membership fees. The CDS-PP underwent an electoral recovery in the general election of 1995, electing 15 deputies. However, following poor electoral results in local elections in 1997, Manuel Monteiro resigned and was replaced at the party's Braga congress by Paulo Portas who defeated Maria José Nogueira Pinto. Portas proposed a return to the party's

roots and set himself the challenge of keeping all 15 seats in parliament in the general election of 1999. This was accomplished.

The "Democratic Coalition"

After a massive electoral defeat in the 2001 local elections, the

(PS) Prime Minister

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resigned with a general election being held in early 2002. The PSD won a plurality, forcing them to enter into a coalition, 20 years after their previous coalition government with the CDS-PP. The CDS-PP gained three ministries: Paulo Portas as Minister of National Defence, Bagão Félix as Minister of Social Security and Celeste Cardona as

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. The CDS-PP contested the 2004 European election in a joint electoral list with the PSD called Forward Portugal (FP), retaining its 2 MEPs. In the summer of 2004, PSD Prime Minister

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, resigned to become president of the

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and in order to avoid an early general election, President

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invited Pedro Santana Lopes to form a new PSD/CDS-PP coalition government. Due to low popularity and what was seen as the inept handling of the country by the new prime minister, parliament was dissolved after just four months on 30 November 2004 and a new general election was scheduled for February 2005.

2005 general election

In the 2005 legislative election, the CDS-PP obtained 7.2% of the vote and returning 12 deputies, losing two of its 14 deputies. The CDS-PP returned to opposition, with its coalition partner the PSD losing to the centre-left PS, whose leader José Sócrates became prime minister. This electoral failure for the CDS-PP, along with the defeat of the PSD led to

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's resignation as party leader and a congress to elect a new leader.

"Portugal 2009"

After the resignation of Paulo Portas, who had led the CDS-PP for seven years, two candidates then emerged: Telmo Correia and José Ribeiro e Castro, with the former being looked on as a favourite, following the line and style of Paulo Portas. However, José Ribeiro e Castro with his 'Portugal 2009' platform was elected president of the CDS-PP. In May 2007, however, Paulo Portas was again elected as the leader of the party, amidst controversy. The CDS-PP contested the 2009 European election in a standalone list, retaining its two MEPs with 8.4% of the vote. In the 2009 legislative election, the party increased their share of the votes to 10.4% and won 21 seats, while remaining in opposition to Prime Minister José Sócrates.

Return to government in 2011

In the 2011 legislative election, the CDS-PP increased its share of the vote yet again to 11.7%, returning 24 deputies. This, along with the victory of the PSD over the incumbent PS government, resulted in the CDS-PP joining a coalition government led by PSD leader and Prime Minister

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, obtaining 5 ministries in the cabinet.

2014 European elections

Th 2014 European election had the CDS-PP once again form a joint list with the PSD, this time called the Portugal Alliance. The list received 27.7% of the vote, second place behind the PS, and returned a single MEP for the CDS-PP.

2015 general election and ''Portugal à Frente''

The CDS-PP formed an alliance with the PSD ahead of the 2015 legislative election, called Portugal Ahead (''Portugal à Frente,'' PàF) with PSD leader and Prime Minister

leading the coalition. The PàF coalition, however, lost 25 seats and the parliamentary majority, though they were still comfortably ahead of the Socialist Party by more than 20 seats. President

swore in Passos Coelho and his minority government, but ten days later the PàF government collapsed when the Communists, Greens and Left Bloc voted in favor of the Socialists' motion of no confidence. Socialist lead

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was sworn in as prime minister on 26 November in a minority government, thrusting PàF into opposition. Passos Coelho declared the end of the Portugal Ahead coalition 16 December.

2019 European elections

The 2019 European election had the CDS-PP return to an individual list, rather than allying with the PSD. The CDS-PP again returned just a single MEP on 6.2% of the vote.

2019 general election

Longtime leader Paulo Portas left the party's leadership after 20 years in December 2015. In March 2016, Assunção Cristas, Portas's chosen successor, was overwhelmingly elected leader of the party over Miguel Mattos Chaves. Cristas became the party's first female leader. However, the subsequent legislative elections were disastrous for the party. The CDS-PP lost 13 of their previous 18 seats, leaving them with only five, and took less than 5% of the vote as António Costa's Socialist government strengthened their position, but fell short of an absolute majority. Cristas resigned as CDS-PP as the election results became clear.

2022 general election

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was called for January 2022 after Costa's budget was rejected when the Left Bloc and Communists joined the right-wing parties in voting against it. The party was led by Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, the leader of People's Youth, who narrowly won the 2020 leadership election. The election resulted in a surprise majority for Costa's Socialists after tightening polls, and the CDS-PP lost their five remaining seats on just 1.6% and for the first time since the restoration of democracy returned no members of the Assembly. The party received just 86,578 votes, less than half of their 2019 total. The CDS-PP's disastrous results were blamed partially on the rise of other right-wing parties, Liberal Initiative and Chega!, which both saw huge increases in support. Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, then the president of the party, resigned on the very same night. In the following congress, he was replaced by CDS's single MEP, Nuno Melo.

2024 general election and the new ''Democratic Alliance''

In November 2023, Prime Minister António Costa tendered his resignation after a series of police raids regarding an investigation around alleged corruption involving the award of contracts for lithium and hydrogen businesses, and, shortly after, a

was called for 10 March 2024. CDS–PP decided to contest the election in a joint alliance called ''Democratic Alliance'' (AD) alongside PSD and PPM. The AD coalition won by a slight margin over the Socialists, 29 to 28 percent, and formed a minority government. CDS–PP leader, Nuno Melo, became

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. Three months later, in the 2024 European Parliament elections, the AD coalition was narrowly defeated by the Socialists, 31 to 32 percent. A new election was called for May 2025, after a vote of confidence in the AD minority government was rejected, following the revelations of the ''Spinumviva'' case.

Ideology

A large ideological overlap exists between the CDS-PP and the

(PSD). The CDS-PP's original philosophy was based on

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,Magone (2003), p. 143 and it was originally positioned in the

. A factional disagreement within the party between those that believed that the CDS-PP should be to the right of the PSD or in the political centre erupted. The party shifted in the early 1990s under the leadership of Manuel Monteiro. It still considers itself to be a centrist party. It has been also described as a

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party. The party formerly had a pro-EU line, but switched under Monteiro, becoming mildly

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, including opposing the

, with this change of policy credited for ending the party's decline. As a result of the change, the

(EPP) expelled the CDS-PP from the EPP Group in the European parliament, with the CDS-PP joining the

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(UfE) group instead. Monteiro's successor,

, continued the CDS-PP's Eurosceptic line, but rejoined the EPP. The CDS-PP has always strongly opposed the legalisation of abortion in Portugal and is officially an

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party. It had campaigned vigorously against the legalisation of abortion up to ten weeks in the 1998 referendum on abortion and in the 2007 referendum, where under the current law abortions are allowed up to 12 weeks if the mother's life or mental or physical health is at risk, up to 16 weeks in cases of rape and up to 24 weeks if the child may be born with an incurable disease or deformity; whereas the new law proposal will allow abortions on request up to the tenth week. The CDS-PP has proposed what it considers to be responsible alternatives based on the "right to life" to solve the problem of illegal abortion and of abortion itself.

Political positions

Some of the party's proposals include: *Stronger

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laws. *Opposition to European federalism. *Stronger relations with

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. *Introducing a school voucher-based education system. *A stronger stance on law and order issues. *A substantial decrease in

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Until 1991

*Opposition to the MPLA regime of

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and support for

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and

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. *Opposition to hard sanctions on

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Organization

Symbols

Logos

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Leadership

List of leaders

List of parliamentary leaders

* Victor Sá Machado (1975–1976) * Adelino Amaro da Costa (1976–1978) * Narana Coissoró (1978–1991) *

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(1991–1995) * Maria José Nogueira Pinto (1995–1996) * Jorge Ferreira (1996–1998) * Luís Queiró (1998–1999) *

(1999–2001) * Basílio Horta (2001–2002) * Telmo Correia (1st time) (2002–2004) * Nuno Melo (2004–2007) * Diogo Feio (2007–2009) * Pedro Mota Soares (2009–2011) * Nuno Magalhães (2011–2019) * Cecília Meireles (2019–2020) * Telmo Correia (2nd time) (2020–2022) * ''Vacant'' (2022–2024) * Paulo Núncio (2024–present)

Political support

In line with the two largest parties in Portuguese politics, but unlike the two

parties, the CDS-PP is a

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party, with appeal across social and ideological groups. The party's voters have a similar profile to the PSD. It has low voter loyalty, with voter retention historically being half the level of the three other largest parties. The major issue on which the voter profile differs most significantly from the other parties is

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, where those that identify as

are significantly more likely to vote for the CDS-PP. The CDS-PP receives a considerable amount of support amongst

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in the north, as well as among

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and

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International affiliations

The CDS-PP is a member party of the

(IDU) and

(EPP). One MEP currently sits in the EPP Group in the

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. It was formerly a member of the

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(EUCD), as well as the EUCD-affiliated EPP's

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in the

, from 1986 to 1995. In 1995, the party –under the more Eurosceptic leadership of Manuel Monteiro– was kicked out of the EPP; it left the EUCD and joined the

group in the European Parliament. In 2003, the party joined the European Democrats component of the

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(EPP–ED) group. In 2006, it left the European Democrats –now collapsing due to the formation of the

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– to join the EPP group proper.

Electoral performance

Assembly of the Republic

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Presidential

European Parliament

Regional Assemblies

Footnotes

Notes

References

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External links

Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular, CDS-PP
official site
Juventude Popular, JP
official site
Federeção dos Trabalhores Democrata Cristãos, FTDC
official site
Partido Popular Europeu, PPE
official site
International Democracy Union
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