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Abbreviation
  
PàF

Dissolved
  
26 November 2015

Leader
  
Pedro Passos Coelho

Portugal Ahead

Founded
  
2014 (as coalition for the European Parliament election)

Legalised
  
20 July 2015 (formally registered in the Constitutional Court)

Ideology
  
Conservatism Liberal conservatism Christian democracy

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. 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.

References

Portugal Ahead Wikipedia