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The People’s Party (PP - Partido Popular) is a populist-conservative
party that appeared in 1974 as Democratic and Social Center (CDS - Centro
Democrático Social) with an ideology somewhat undefined (they said they
represented the centre, but their voters where right-wing). Allways elected
members of parliament, in the first years alone and later in coalition with
PPD, but before that participated in a governent in
coalition with PS. The coalition
PPD-CDS-PPM, called
Democratic Alliance (AD - Aliança Democrática)
won a few elections, and ruled the country for some years. After the breakdown
of the AD coalition, the party started to make some changes. Changed the
colours, changed its name, first to CDS-PP and then to PP and assumed itself
as a right-wing party.
Jorge Candeias, 04 Sep 1997
I saw yet another version of the flag of PP. The flag was peaking behind the party’s leader, Manuel Monteiro, in a black and white recent newspaper picture. It is just like the image I sent some days ago, except that it has in (presumably) yellow lettering the folowing in the upper hoist:
"CDS" in the upper row;This seems to be the most official version of the party flag now.
"Partido Popular" underlined in the lower row.
Back in those hot revolutionary days of 1974-75 the only party that didn't
have the aim «build a socialist society» in it's program was the then CDS.
Everybody else claimed to wish the real socialism and each had their own ideas
of what the real socialism looked like. Naturally in those days, red flags
where seen everywhere. The only guys who didn't use some variation of red
where the "centrists" of CDS with black and white (now
with yellow and blue)
and the monarchics, that used the traditional blue
and white colours of pre-republican Portugal.
Jorge Candeias, 17 May 1999