National Democratic Alternative (Portugal)
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National Democratic Alternative Alternativa Democrática Nacional | |
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| Abbreviation | ADN |
| President | Bruno Fialho |
| Secretary-General | Inês Tafula |
| Founded | 5 October 2014 |
| Legalised | 11 February 2015 |
| Split from | Earth Party |
| Headquarters | Estrada da Luz, 71 1600–165 Lisboa |
| Ideology | Anti-establishment[2] |
| Colours | Blue |
| Assembly of the Republic | 0 / 230
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| European Parliament | 0 / 21
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| Regional parliaments | 0 / 104
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| Local government | 0 / 2,078
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| Website | |
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The National Democratic Alternative (Portuguese: Alternativa Democrática Nacional, ADN), originally the Democratic Republican Party (Portuguese: Partido Democrático Republicano, PDR) until October 2021, is a Portuguese political party, founded in 2014. It was founded in Coimbra on 5 October 2014 and was legalised by the Portuguese Constitutional Court on 11 February 2015. It was created by António Marinho e Pinto, an MEP formerly for the Earth Party. It was a member of the European Democratic Party,[3] and sat within the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group in the European Parliament.
In the 2015 legislative elections it did not succeed in electing a member of parliament, receiving 60,912 votes or 1.1% and coming 7th.
In 2022 the party attracted some attention for its denialist position on the Covid-19 pandemic after the party president claimed on a televised debate that "there wasn't an excess of mortality in Portugal because of Covid",[4] and that "there is proof that only 152 people died of Covid (in Portugal)".[5]
On september 22nd 2022 the party would leave the European Democratic Party due to ideological divergencies regarding the LGBT community.[6]
Electoral results
Assembly of the Republic
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/- | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60,912 | 1.1 (#7) | 0 / 230
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N/A | New party |
| 2019 | 11,674 | 0.22 (#16) | 0 / 230
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| 2022 | 10,001 | 0.19 (#15) | 0 / 230
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- | - |
References
- ^ "PDR muda de nome para Alternativa Democrática Nacional (ADN) e tem novos estatutos". JM Madeira. 12 October 2021.
- ^ "Contra testes, vacinas, máscaras e certificados. O que defende o novo partido ADN e que ligações tem aos movimentos negacionistas".
- ^ "The PDR, new EDP member". Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- ^ Gomes, João Francisco. "Fact Check. "Não houve um excesso de mortalidade em Portugal por causa do Covid", como diz candidato da ADN Bruno Fialho?". Observador (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 7 February 2022.
- ^ SAPO. "O debate dos 11 partidos sem assento parlamentar e as 8 mentiras mais polémicas do confronto". Polígrafo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 7 February 2022.
- ^ "ADN desvincula-se do PDE/EDP devido a posições polémicas – Partido ADN".
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