National Renovator Party

National Renovator Party
Partido Nacional Renovador
President José Pinto Coelho
Founded 12 April 2000 (2000-04-12)
Preceded by Democratic Renovator Party
Headquarters Lisbon, Portugal
Youth wing Revonator Nationalist Youth (Juventude Nacional Renovadora)
Ideology Nationalism
National conservatism
Social conservatism
Right-wing populism
Protectionism
Economic nationalism
Euroscepticism
Anti-immigration
Political position Far-right[1]
European affiliation Alliance of European National Movements
International affiliation None
European Parliament group No MEPs
Colours Black, Blue and Red
Assembly of the Republic
0 / 230
European Parliament
0 / 21
Regional
parliaments
0 / 104
Local
Government
0 / 2,086
Website
www.pnr.pt

The National Renovator Party (Portuguese: Partido Nacional Renovador, pronounced [pɐɾˈtiðu nɐsiuˈnaɫ ʁɨnuvɐˈðoɾ], PNR) is a Portuguese ultranationalist political party.

Grouped in the ethno-nationalist radical right European party family, the party diverges from the universalist and multiracial tradition of Portuguese nationalism.[2]

History

The PNR was established in February 2000.[3]

Controversy

One of the boards which have caused controversy (the second, after the first one was vandalised), at the Marquis of Pombal Square, in Lisbon.

Although in the past the party did not reject connections to so-called neo-Nazi racist movements,[4] it claims to be a target of political persecution. In their youth, some of its former members were convicted for racial discrimination and violent crimes, such as the racist murder of Alcindo Monteiro in Lisbon, after being linked to far-right armed groups such as the Portuguese Hammerskins. In recent years, however, the party has expelled its members that have connections to this kind of groups and, as a result, the former Portuguese Hammerskins leader Mário Machado has decided to try to create a new party.[5]

Election results

In the 2005 legislative elections, the PNR obtained just under 0.2% of the vote, failing to elect any deputies to Parliament by a wide margin. In the 2009 European election, the party had about 13,000 votes, having 0.37% of the vote, the party had its higher results in the districts of Lisbon and Setúbal. 2015 was the year the party most increased in votes, having received 27,269 votes in the legislative elections. An increase of just over 50% in comparison to 2011.

Assembly of the Republic

Election # of votes % of vote # of seats Place
2002
4,712
0.09%
0
10th
2005
9,374
0.16%
0
9th
2009
11,503
0.20%
0
12th
2011
17,548
0.31%
0
10th
2015
27,269
0.50%
0
10th

European Parliament

Election # of votes % of vote # of seats Place
2004
8,405
0.25%
0
11th
2009
13,214
0.37%
0
12th
2014
15,036
0.46%
0
12th

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Marchi 2013, p. 137
  2. ↑ Salgado & Zúquete 2017, p. 240.
  3. ↑ "Political Parties in Portugal". Translation Company Group. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  4. ↑ Actualidades 7 Junho, 2006 Presidente do PNR solidário com Mário Machado Archived 23 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "Observador May 2014

Bibliography

  • Marchi, Riccardo (2013). "The Extreme right in 21st-Century Portugal: the Partido Nacional Renovador". In Ralf Melzer; Sebastian Serafin. Right-Wing extremism in Europe (pdf). pp. 132–155. ISBN 978-3-86498-522-5.
  • Salgado, Susana; Zúquete, José Pedro (2017). "Portugal: Discreet Populisms Amid Unfavorable Contexts and Stigmatization". In Toril Aalberg; Frank Esser; Carsten Reinemann; Jesper Strömbäck; Claes H. de Vreese. Populist Political Communication in Europe. New York and London: Routledge. pp. 235–248. ISBN 978-1-138-65480-8.

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