United People Alliance
Encyclopedia
The United People Alliance (Portuguese
Portuguese 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...

: Aliança Povo Unido or APU), was an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party
Portuguese Communist Party
The Portuguese Communist Party is a major left-wing political party in Portugal. It is a Marxist-Leninist party, and its organization is based upon democratic centralism. The party also considers itself to be patriotic and internationalist....

 (PCP) and the Portuguese Democratic Movement
Portuguese Democratic Movement
The Portuguese Democratic Movement / Democratic Electoral Commissions was one of the most important organizations of the democratic opposition to the Portuguese fascist regime...

 (MDP-CDE). After 1983, the Ecologist Party also joined.

The coalition was formed for the first time in 1978 in order to run to the Portuguese parliamentary election
Portuguese legislative election, 1979
The Portuguese legislative election of 1979 took place on December 2. The last election, three and a half years before, in April 1976, was won by the Socialist Party under the lead of Mário Soares, who became the Prime-Minister of the 1st Constitutional government after the revolution...

 and split up after the breakaway and implosion of the MDP-CDE in 1987. After that, the PCP started to ran in coalition with the Ecologist Party "The Greens" in the Unitarian Democratic Coalition
Unitarian Democratic Coalition
The Democratic Unity Coalition is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party and the Ecologist Party "The Greens"...

.

Electoral scores achieved by APU

Electoral Results of APU
(year links to election page)
Year Type of Election Voting % of Voting Mandates
1979
Portuguese legislative election, 1979
The Portuguese legislative election of 1979 took place on December 2. The last election, three and a half years before, in April 1976, was won by the Socialist Party under the lead of Mário Soares, who became the Prime-Minister of the 1st Constitutional government after the revolution...

Portuguese Parliament
1,121,374
19.0%
47
1979
Portuguese local election, 1979
The Portuguese local election of 1979 took place on December 16. This was the second local election in Portugal since the democratic revolution of 1974 introduced the concept of democratic local power....

Local
1,021,486
20.5%
322
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...

Portuguese Parliament
1,000,975
17.0%
41
1982
Portuguese local election, 1982
The Portuguese local election of 1982 took place on December 12. This was the third local election in Portugal since the democratic revolution of 1974 introduced the concept of democratic local power....

Local
1,061,492
20.7%
325
1983
Portuguese legislative election, 1983
The Portuguese legislative election of 1983 took place on April 25. The last election, in October 1980 had been won by a right-wing coalition, the Democratic Alliance and Francisco Sá Carneiro had retained office as Prime Minister with an increased majority...

Portuguese Parliament
1,024,475
18.2%
44
1985
Portuguese legislative election, 1985
The Portuguese legislative election of 1985 took place on October 6. In June of the same year, the former Prime-Minister, Mário Soares, had resigned from the job due to the lack of parliamentary support, the government was composed by a coalition of the two major parties, the center-right Social...

Portuguese Parliament
893,216
15.6%
38
1985
Portuguese local election, 1985
The Portuguese local election of 1985 took place on December 15. This was the fourth local election in Portugal since the democratic revolution of 1974 introduced the concept of democratic local power....

Local
942,147
19.4%
305
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK