Unitary Democratic Coalition

Unitary Democratic Coalition
Coligação Democrática Unitária
Abbreviation
  • CDU
  • PCP–PEV
LeaderPaulo Raimundo
Founded1987
Preceded byUnited People Alliance
HeadquartersRua Soeiro Pereira Gomes 3, 1600-019 Lisboa
Youth wingJuventude CDU
Membership49,960 in 2020 (PCP)
c. 6,000 in 2007 (PEV)
IdeologyCommunism[1][2]
Eco-socialism[3]
Hard Euroscepticism[4][5]
Political positionLeft-wing to far-left
European Parliament groupThe Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
Colours
  •   Blue (official)
  •   Red (customary)
  •   Pea green[a]
  •   Green
Member parties
Assembly of the Republic
4 / 230
European Parliament
1 / 21
Regional Parliaments
0 / 104
Local government
(Mayors)
19 / 308
Local government
(Parishes)
112 / 3,058
Election symbol
Website
www.cdu.pt Edit this at Wikidata

The Unitary Democratic Coalition[6] (Portuguese: CDU – Coligação Democrática Unitária, CDU) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party (Portuguese: Partido Comunista Português or PCP) and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" (Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" or PEV). The coalition also integrates the political movement Democratic Intervention (Portuguese: Intervenção Democrática or ID).

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.

  1. ^ THE STATE OF POPULISM IN EUROPE (2016) via Politico EU
  2. ^ The State of Populism in Europe 2017 via Academia
  3. ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Portugal". Parties and Elections in Europe.
  4. ^ Godinho, Luísa (2019). "The local construction of Euroscepticism: a downsian approach to the positioning of the Portuguese Communist Party vis-à-vis the European project". Centro de Estudos Internacionais (CEI-ISCTE).
  5. ^ "Europeias: CDU defende "outro projeto" europeu, PS alerta que ideia "é muito perigosa"" (in Portuguese). Diário de Notícias. 7 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Elections for the National Parliament, 4th October 2015". 28 September 2015.


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