New Democracy Party (Portugal)

New Democracy Party Partido da Nova Democracia
Leaders	Manuel Monteiro Joel Viana
Founded	18 June 2003 (2003-06-18)
Dissolved	23 September 2015 (2015-09-23)
Split from	Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party
Headquarters	Lisbon (until 2010) Funchal (2010–2015)
Ideology	Conservatism Right-wing populism Euroscepticism
Political position	Right-wing
European affiliation	Europeans United for Democracy
European Parliament group	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Colours	Blue
Website
www.pnd.pt
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The New Democracy Party (Portuguese: Partido da Nova Democracia, pronounced [pɐɾˈtiðu ðɐ ˈnɔvɐ ðɨmukɾɐˈsiɐ]) was a small Portuguese Eurosceptic liberal-conservative political party. In voting ballots, its name appeared only as New Democracy, with the acronym unchanged. The party was founded in 2003. It was, at the time, a new party which resulted from Manuel Monteiro's separation from the Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party. The party was a member of the EUDemocrats. Manuel Monteiro eventually would leave the party in 2009, which was led, since then, by Joel Viana until its extinction.

In the 2011 presidential election, the PND's candidate was José Manuel Coelho. He won 4.5% of the vote: greatly surpassing expectations and pre-election polling.

The party's registration was cancelled by the Constitutional Court on 23 September 2015, after the party failed to submit its required annual report in 2011, 2012, and 2013.

External links

• (in Portuguese) New Democracy Party official web site