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Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
The Assembly of the Republic (Portuguese: Assembleia da República) is the parliament of the Portuguese Republic.
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Austerity
Austerity is a political-economic term referring to policies that aim to reduce government budget deficits through spending cuts, tax increases, or a combination of both.
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Autonomous Regions of Portugal
The two Autonomous Regions of Portugal (Regiões Autónomas de Portugal) are the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores) and Madeira (Região Autónoma da Madeira).
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Black
Black is the darkest color, the result of the absence or complete absorption of visible light.
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Catarina Martins
Catarina Soares Martins (born 7 September 1973) is a Portuguese politician.
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CDS – People's Party
The CDS – People's Party (CDS – Partido Popular, derived from Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular, CDS-PP) is a conservative, Christian democratic, and national-conservative political party in Portugal.
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Confidence and supply
In a parliamentary democracy based on the Westminster system, confidence and supply are required for a minority government to retain power in the lower house.
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Democracy
Democracy (δημοκρατία dēmokraa thetía, literally "rule by people"), in modern usage, has three senses all for a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting.
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Democratic socialism
Democratic socialism is a political philosophy that advocates political democracy alongside social ownership of the means of production with an emphasis on self-management and/or democratic management of economic institutions within a market socialist, participatory or decentralized planned economy.
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Domestic violence
Domestic violence (also named domestic abuse or family violence) is violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation.
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Earth Party
The Earth Party (Partido da Terra), previously called The Earth Party Movement, Movimento o Partido da Terra, abbreviated MPT (hence called MPT – Partido da Terra), is a green conservative political party in Portugal, founded on 12 August 1993.
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Eco-socialism
Eco-socialism, green socialism or socialist ecology is an ideology merging aspects of socialism with that of green politics, ecology and alter-globalization or anti-globalization.
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Economic Adjustment Programme for Portugal
The Economic Adjustment Programme for Portugal, usually referred to as the Bailout programme, is a Memorandum of understanding on financial assistance to the Portuguese Republic in order to cope with the 2010–14 Portuguese financial crisis.
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Ernest Mandel
Ernest Ezra Mandel (also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter; 5 April 1923 – 20 July 1995), was a Marxist economist and a Trotskyist activist and theorist.
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Ethics
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
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Eurogroup
The Eurogroup is the recognised collective term for informal meetings of the finance ministers of the eurozone—those member states of the European Union (EU) which have adopted the euro as their official currency.
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU).
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European Parliament election, 1999 (Portugal)
The European Parliament election of 1999 in Portugal was the election of MEP representing Portugal constituency for the 1999-2004 term of the European Parliament.
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European Parliament election, 2004 (Portugal)
The European Parliament election of 2004 in Portugal was the election of MEPs representing Portugal for the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament.
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European Parliament election, 2009 (Portugal)
The European Parliament election of 2009 in Portugal was the election of the delegation from Portugal to the European Parliament held on 7 June 2009.
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European Parliament election, 2014 (Portugal)
The European Parliament election of 2014 in Portugal elected the Portuguese delegation to the European Parliament from 2014 to 2019.
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European Science Foundation
The European Science Foundation (ESF) is an association of 8 member organizations devoted to scientific research in 7 European countries.
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European United Left–Nordic Green Left
European United Left–Nordic Green Left (Gauche unitaire européenne, GUE-NGL) is a left-wing political group in the European Parliament, established in 1995.
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Euroscepticism
Euroscepticism (also known as EU-scepticism) means criticism of the European Union (EU) and European integration.
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Feminism
Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.
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Fernando Rosas
Fernando José Mendes Rosas (born 18 April 1946, in Lisbon) is a Portuguese historian, professor and politician.
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Financial crisis
A financial crisis is any of a broad variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value.
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Foreign Policy in Focus
Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC.
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Francisco Louçã
Francisco Anacleto Louçã (born 12 November 1956 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese economist, politician and pundit.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.
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Humanism
Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism and empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition.
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Independent politician
An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.
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Internationalist Communist League (Portugal)
Internationalist Communist League (Liga Comunista Internacionalista) was a Trotskyist political party in Portugal.
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José Sócrates
José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, GCIH (born 6 September 1957), commonly known as José Sócrates, is a Portuguese politician who was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011.
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Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.
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Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 552,700, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.
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List of municipalities of Portugal
This is a list of the municipalities of Portugal.
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List of political parties in Portugal
This article lists political parties in Portugal.
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LIVRE
LIVRE or FREE (also previously known as LIVRE/Tempo de Avançar, FREE/Time to Move On or FREE/Time to Move Forward with the acronym L/TDA), abbreviated as L, is a Portuguese eco-socialist political party founded in 2014.
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Marxism
Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.
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Member of parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.
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Miguel Portas
Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas (1 May 1958 – 24 April 2012) was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.
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Owen Jones (writer)
Owen Peter Jones (born 8 August 1984) is a British newspaper columnist, commentator and left-wing political activist.
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Participation (decision making)
Participation in social science refers to different mechanisms for the public to express opinions – and ideally exert influence – regarding political, economic, management or other social decisions.
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Party of the European Left
The Party of the European Left (PEL), commonly abbreviated European Left, is a European political party which operates as an association of democratic socialist and communist political parties in the European Union and other European countries.
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Paulo Portas
Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas (born 12 September 1962), is a Portuguese media and political figure, who has, since the 1990s, been Portugal's leading conservative politician.
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Pedro Passos Coelho
Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho (born 24 July 1964) is a Portuguese politician who was the 118th Prime Minister of Portugal, in office from 2011 to 2015.
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Percentage point
A percentage point or percent point (pp) is the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages.
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Political party
A political party is an organised group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in government.
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Politics XXI
The Politics XXI (Política XXI) was a Portuguese left-wing political party.
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Popular Democratic Union (Portugal)
The People's Democratic Union (or UDP) is a Marxist political movement in Portugal.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.
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Portuguese Communist Party
The Portuguese Communist Party (Partido Comunista Português,, PCP) is a major political party in Portugal.
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Portuguese legislative election, 1999
The Portuguese legislative election of 1999 took place on 10 October.
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Portuguese legislative election, 2002
The Portuguese legislative election of 2002 took place on 17 March.
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Portuguese legislative election, 2005
The Portuguese legislative election of 2005 took place on 20 February.
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Portuguese legislative election, 2009
Legislative elections in Portugal were held on 27 September 2009 to renew all 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic.
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Portuguese legislative election, 2011
A legislative election was held in Portugal on 5 June 2011 to elect all 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic.
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Portuguese legislative election, 2015
A Portuguese legislative election was held on 4 October 2015.
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Portuguese presidential election, 2006
A Portuguese presidential election was held on 22 January 2006 to elect a successor to the incumbent President Jorge Sampaio, who was term-limited from running for a third consecutive term by the Constitution of Portugal.
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Red
Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.
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Reuters
Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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Revolutionary Socialist Party (Portugal)
The Revolutionary Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Revolucionário,, or PSR) was a small far-left Party in Portugal, founded in 1978 after the merger of two Trotskyist parties - the Internationalist Communist League (Portuguese: Liga Comunista Internacionalista or LCI) and the Workers Revolutionary Party (Portuguese: Partido Revolucionário dos Trabalhadores or PRT).
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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) named in recognition of Rosa Luxemburg, occasionally referred to as Rosa-Lux, is a transnational alternative policy group and educational institution, centered in Germany and affiliated to the democratic socialist Left Party.
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Rui Tavares
Rui Tavares (born 29 July 1972 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese politician and former Member of the European Parliament.
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Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage) is the marriage of a same-sex couple, entered into in a civil or religious ceremony.
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Socialist Party (Portugal)
The Socialist Party (Partido Socialista,, PS) is a social-democratic political party in Portugal.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky.
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Unitary Democratic Coalition
The Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU – Coligação Democrática Unitária, PCP–PEV) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party (Partido Comunista Português or PCP) and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" (Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" or PEV).
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2010–14 Portuguese financial crisis
The Great Recession in Portugal led to the country being unable to repay or refinance its government debt without the assistance of third parties.
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Bloco de Esquerda, Left Bloc (Portugal), Leftist Block, Leftwing Bloc, Leftwing Block, The Left Bloc.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Bloc
