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Portuguese social-democratic party founded in 1973 by Mário Soares, a pillar of the democratic regime. It defends the welfare state, public health and schools, balanced budgets, the EU and NATO, civil rights and regulated reception of immigrants.
Political axes
Leans further toward progressive than 84% of the 190 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most parties and organizations.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 271 ideologies
Liberal current that accepts an active role for the state in the economy and in guaranteeing rights, combining individual freedoms and markets with regulation and public policies aimed at the collective good and equality.
Current that unites market capitalism and globalized trade with a robust welfare state, advocating progressive morality, secularism, and democratic institutions, in the Nordic social model.
Scandinavian model combining tripartite collective bargaining among unions, employers and the state, a universalist welfare state funded by high taxes, and an open, export-driven market economy, with strong social consensus and low inequality.
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FeudalismFar-Right30%
Labour leader and prime minister of Norway since 2021, re-elected in 2025. A pro-NATO social democrat, he keeps the wealth tax and state-owned Equinor, defends oil exploration and recognized Palestine, alongside a restrictive asylum policy.
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Italy's main center-left party, of Elly Schlein, it defends social democracy, civil rights, migrants, Europe and the green transition, with communist and Christian-democratic roots, and is in opposition to Meloni.
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