The Popular Unity Force (, FUP) was a Portuguese political party. It was founded in 1980 and dissolved in 2004. The party was founded by

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho, Order of Liberty, GCL (; 31 August 1936 – 25 July 2021) was a Portuguese military officer. He was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution, and later became a terrorist leader. After the Re ...

"to promote popular unity among the Portuguese people for the construction of Socialism" and "to practice solidarity with all the peoples of the world who struggle for their liberation and by Socialism." In 1980, Otelo was a candidate in the Portuguese presidential elections. Otelo finished in third place in the elections with 85,896 (1.4%) votes.

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