- People's Democratic Union (Portugal)
The People's Democratic Union (Portuguese: União Democrática Popular, pron. IPA2|uni'ɐ̃ũ dɨmu'kɾatikɐ pupu'laɾ, or UDP) is a left-wing political movement in
Portugal . UDP is now transformed into a political association in its last congress in 2005 due to the merger with other left-wing parties in theLeftwing Bloc .The party was founded in December
1974 as a common mass front of theCommittee for Support to the Reconstruction of the Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CARP(ML)),Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist Unity (URML) andRevolutionary Communist Committees (Marxist-Leninist) . UDP ran lists in the first free election in Portugal in 1975, and elected one MP in that election. UDP also ran in the subsequent elections until1983 . After that it ran integrated in the electoral lists of thePortuguese Communist Party until1991 .In 1998 it became part of the
Leftwing Bloc after a merger with other small left-wing parties, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, thePolitics 21 and theFront of the Revolutionary Left .
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