Portugal Ahead

Portugal Ahead
Portugal à Frente
Abbreviation PPD/PSD.CDS-PP (official)
PàF (informal)
Leader Pedro Passos Coelho
Founded 2014
(as coalition for the European Parliament election)
Legalised 20 July 2015
(formally registered in the Constitutional Court)
Dissolved 26 November 2015[1][2]
Ideology Liberal conservatism
Conservatism
Christian democracy
Political position Centre-right
European Parliament group European People's Party
Member parties Social Democratic Party
CDS – People's Party
Assembly of the Republic
107 / 230
European Parliament
7 / 21
Website
www.portugalafrente.pt

The Portugal Ahead (Portuguese: Portugal à Frente, PàF) was a right-wing political and electoral alliance in Portugal formed by the Social Democratic Party (PPD/PSD) and CDS – People's Party (CDS-PP).

History

The alliance was formed as the Portugal Alliance (Aliança Portugal) for the 2014 European Parliament election, in which the alliance won 27.7% of the popular vote and 7 of Portugal's 21 seats in the European Parliament, sitting with the European People's Party Group.[3] The alliance was later extended for the 2015 legislative election under the name Portugal Ahead.

In the legislative election on 5 October 2015, the PSD/CDS-PP joint list received 36.9% of the vote and returned 102 seats in the Assembly of the Republic, with the PSD electing 5 deputies on standalone lists in Madeira and Azores.[4]

Although the coalition won the elections, and surprised many analysts and pundits, the left parties won a "majority" in Parliament. For the first time in Portuguese democracy the PS, the second most voted political force in the elections, negotiated with the BE, the PCP and the PEV a formation of a new government, thus refusing the support for a second PSD/CDS-PP cabinet.

Following the fall of the short-lived 20th Constitutional Government, the "natural" extinction of the coalition was declared on December 16, 2015 by Passos Coelho: "No formal act is necessary to put an end to it".[1] At the same time, Passos Coelho didn't put aside a possible future revival of the coalition and stressed the continued convergence of positions between both parties.

Election results

Assembly of the Republic

Election Assembly of the Republic Government Size Leader
Votes % Seats won
2015 2,085,465 38.6%
107 / 230
 Minority gov't (2015) 1st Pedro Passos Coelho
Opposition (2015-)

European Parliament

As Portugal Alliance (Aliança Portugal, AP)

Election European Parliament Size Candidate
Votes % Seats won
2014 910,647 27.7%
7 / 21
 2nd Paulo Rangel

References

  1. 1 2 (16 December 2015) Passos Coelho diz que a coligação "acabou" TSF. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  2. ↑ (16 December 2015) Passos: Coligação com CDS acabou Expresso. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Results by country: Portugal". Results of the 2014 European elections. European Parliament. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  4. ↑ http://www.legislativas2015.mai.gov.pt


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