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Latest revision as of 10:51, 27 June 2025

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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Unitary Democratic Coalition[1] (Template:Langx, CDU) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party (Template:Langx) and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" (Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" or PEV). The coalition also integrates the political movement Democratic Intervention (Template:Langx).

The coalition was formed in 1987 in order to run to the simultaneous legislative election and European Parliament election that were held on July 19 of that year. It achieved its best result in the 1987 elections both nationally and locally. From 1991 until 2019, the party consistently won between six and ten percent of the national vote in elections to the Assembly of the Republic until 2022 and 2024, in which the coalition dropped below 5% nationally for the first time. The coalition supported the minority Socialist Costa Government from 2015 until 2019 with a confidence and supply agreement.

History

Since the beginning of the coalition, the member parties have never participated separately in any election. The Communist Party is the major force of the coalition and has the majority of places in the electoral lists while the Greens are a smaller party. For example, the Greens were responsible for 2 members of parliament among the 17 elected by the coalition in the 2015 legislative election. Each party has its own parliamentary group and counts as a separate party in official issues.

Along with the Left Bloc, the coalition supported the minority Socialist Costa Government from 2015 until 2019 under a confidence and supply agreement.[2] This was known as the "Geringonça" (Contraption) deal, a setup that Prime minister António Costa decided to end following the 2019 elections.[3]

In the 2022 election, the CDU won six seats while the Greens achieved zero seats. In the 2024 election, the CDU won four seats and the Greens zero, with the coalition achieving just 3.3 percent of the votes.[4] In 2024, the coalition lost their historic seat in the Beja district and for the first time lost all MPs in the Alentejo region.[5]

Symbol

The present symbol of CDU shows the PCP's symbol and the PEV's symbol, a hammer and sickle and a sunflower, respectively, with the respective names below. That symbol replaced a former one that featured three hexagons with the inscription: CDU and was often used with a beehive. That was sometimes said to mean that CDU worked just like a bee (collectively and every day) and the hexagons were meant to represent the cell-based Leninist organization of the PCP.

Youth organization

The coalition has a youth wing, called Juventude CDU, that develops political work in youth related subjects, along with youth-oriented activities, mainly during the electoral campaigns. The Juventude CDU is mainly composed by members of the youth wings of the parties that compose the CDU, the Portuguese Communist Youth and the Ecolojovem.

Election results

Assembly of the Republic

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CDU sticker: Schedule and alert your friends: on 13 June (1999), Vote CDU to the European Parliament
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CDU results in the local election of 2005. (Azores and Madeira are not shown)

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Election Leader Votes % Seats +/- Government
1987 Álvaro Cunhal 689,137 12.1 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease7 Opposition
1991 504,583 8.8 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease14 Opposition
1995 Carlos Carvalhas 506,157 8.6 (#4) Template:Composition bar Decrease2 Opposition
1999 487,058 9.0 (#3) Template:Composition bar Increase2 Opposition
2002 379,870 6.9 (#4) Template:Composition bar Decrease5 Opposition
2005 Jerónimo de Sousa 433,369 7.5 (#3) Template:Composition bar Increase2 Opposition
2009 446,279 7.9 (#5) Template:Composition bar Increase1 Opposition
2011 441,147 7.9 (#4) Template:Composition bar Increase1 Opposition
2015 445,901 8.3 (#4) Template:Composition bar Increase1 Opposition (2015)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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2019 332,018 6.3 (#4) Template:Composition bar Decrease5 Opposition
2022 238,920 4.3 (#5) Template:Composition bar Decrease6 Opposition
2024 Paulo Raimundo 205,551 3.2 (#6) Template:Composition bar Decrease2 Opposition
2025 183,686 2.9 (#6) Template:Composition bar Decrease1 Opposition

Presidential

Election Candidate Votes % Result
1991 Carlos Carvalhas 635,867 12.9 (#3) Lost Red XN
1996 Jerónimo de Sousa Withdrew
2001 António Simões de Abreu 221,886 5.1 (#3) Lost Red XN
2006 Jerónimo de Sousa 466,428 8.6 (#4) Lost Red XN
2011 Francisco Lopes 300,921 7.1 (#4) Lost Red XN
2016 Edgar Silva 183,051 3.9 (#5) Lost Red XN
2021 João Ferreira 180,518 4.3 (#4) Lost Red XN

European Parliament

Election Leader Votes % Seats +/– EP Group
1987 Ângelo Veloso 648,700 11.5 (#4) Template:Composition bar COM
1989 Carlos Carvalhas 597,759 14.4 (#3) Template:Composition bar Increase1 EUL / G
1994 Luis Manuel de Sá 340,725 11.2 (#4) Template:Composition bar Decrease1 GUE/NGL
1999 Ilda Figueiredo 357,671 10.3 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease1
2004 309,401 9.1 (#3) Template:Composition bar Steady0
2009 379,787 10.6 (#4) Template:Composition bar Steady0
2014 João Ferreira 416,925 12.7 (#3) Template:Composition bar Increase1
2019 228,045 6.9 (#4) Template:Composition bar Decrease1 The Left
2024 João Oliveira 162,630 4.1 (#6) Template:Composition bar Decrease1

Regional Assemblies

Region Election Leader Votes % Seats +/- Government
Azores 2024 Marco Varela 1,823 1.6 (#7) Template:Composition bar Steady0 No seats
Madeira 2025 Edgar Silva 2,543 1.8 (#7) Template:Composition bar Steady0 No seats

Local elections

Election Leader Votes % Councillors +/- Mayors +/-
1989 Álvaro Cunhal 633,682 12.8 (#3) Template:Composition bar Template:Composition bar
1993 Carlos Carvalhas 689,928 12.8 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease7 Template:Composition bar Decrease1
1997 643,956 12.0 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease10 Template:Composition bar Decrease8
2001 557,481 10.6 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease34 Template:Composition bar Decrease13
2005 Jerónimo de Sousa 590,598 11.0 (#3) Template:Composition bar Increase1 Template:Composition bar Increase4
2009 537,329 9.7 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease29 Template:Composition bar Decrease4
2013 552,506 11.1 (#3) Template:Composition bar Increase39 Template:Composition bar Increase6
2017 489,189 9.5 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease42 Template:Composition bar Decrease10
2021 410,666 8.2 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease23 Template:Composition bar Decrease5

Notes

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References

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