Republican and Socialist Front
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Republican and Socialist Front (in PortuguesePortuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
: Frente Republicana e Socialista) was an electoral alliance in Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
, consisting of the Socialist Party
Socialist Party (Portugal)
The Socialist Party , abbreviated to PS, is a social-democratic political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel, by militants from Portuguese Socialist Action ....
(PS), Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy
Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy
The Leftwing Union for the Socialist Democracy was a Portuguese leftwing party founded in January of 1978. The party has its origins in the Socialist Culture Association - Worker Brotherhood, a socialist organization and in groups of independent people linked to the Socialist Party.The party...
(UEDS) and Independent Social Democratic Action (ASDI). FRS contested the Portuguese legislative election, 1980
Portuguese legislative election, 1980
The Portuguese legislative election of 1980 took place on October 5.In January 1980, the Democratic Alliance, which had won the previous election, on December 2 of 1979, entered office with Francisco Sá Carneiro leading the government...
. It got 1 606 198 votes (26.6%) and 71 MPs elected (PS 66 MPs, UEDS and ASDI 4 each).