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Portugal's main centre-right party, founded in 1974 as the PPD. Liberal-conservative despite its name, it leads the Democratic Alliance and defends lower taxes, state reform, the EU and NATO, with firmer migration control.
Political axes
Leans further toward globalism than 88% of the 190 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade 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
Pro-market centrist branch that combines fiscal responsibility, liberal democracy, moderate international openness, and institutional reform, rejecting both broad statism and libertarian radicalism as a political program.
The East Asian Tiger model (Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong): champions free markets, foreign trade and private enterprise as engines of growth, paired with an active technocratic state that plans infrastructure, education and strategic industrialization, stopping short of closed protectionism or hard authoritarian control.
Liberalism that defends democracy, individual rights and a market economy, but tests each policy against evidence: it accepts regulation, a safety net and targeted intervention when they fix market failures, as in Clinton's Third Way.
The most distant ideology
Strasserist SocialismThird Position38%
Federal deputy for São Paulo, MBL co-founder, re-elected in 2026 for Mission. Combines free markets and administrative reform with tough-on-crime policy, tech-focused industrial policy and moderate social conservatism.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
Center party founded by Gilberto Kassab in 2011, pragmatic and without a defined ideology, that joins governments of any camp. It defends a market economy, institutional stability and federalism, with leaders such as Ratinho Jr. and Eduardo Paes.
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