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Nuno Melo and Luís Montenegro celebrate the signing of the Democratic Alliance Agreement (AD) in 2024
“AD – Democratic Alliance – PSD/CDS” on the continent, “PSD/CDS/PPM” in the Azores. Confusion with DNA is away?
PSD and CDS-PP have published today in daily newspapers that coalition on the continent and in the wood will be designated by “AD – Democratic Alliance – PSD/CDS”and Azores will repeat the formula used in previous suffrage “PSD/CDS/PPM”.
On Wednesday night, the PSD and CDS-PP national councils approved a pre-election coalition between the two parties for early May 18 elections, contrary to what happened in the 2024 legislatures and European.
On Thursday, the Monarchical Popular Party (PPM) threatened to advance with a precautionary early next week to prevent The use of the designation “Democratic Alliance” by the PSD/CDS-PP coalition, claiming to be being “Severely injured”.
The monarchics revealed that before the Failed negotiations with social democrats and centrists for a new coalition for the next legislatures, the two parties warned register the “democratic alliance” mark in coalition with another party, but chose not to do it for ethical reasons.
Today, in the announcement published in newspapers, PSD and CDS-PP communicate the decision to compete in an electoral coalition in all electoral circles of the continental territory, the Autonomous Region of Madeira and to the electoral circles of Europe and outside Europe using the denomination “AD-Democratic Alliance-PSD/CDS” and the symbols of both parties.
In a separate ad, PSD, CDS-PP and PPM report that they will compete in the Autonomous Region of the Azores with the denomination “PSD/CDS/PPM”-
According to the Electoral Law for the Assembly of the Republic, the coalitions of parties for electoral purposes do not need to be noted by the Supreme Court, but must be communicated Until the effective submission of the applications, in a document signed jointly by the competent bodies of the respective parties, to the National Elections Commission, with indication of their denominations, acronyms and symbols, “and announced within the same period in two of the most read daily newspapers”, which took place today.
The same law indicates that “the coalitions cease to exist as soon as the final result of the elections is made public.”
On Wednesday night, PSD Secretary-General Hugo Soares argued that “from a legal, formal, constitutional point of view” there would be no problem that the two parties used the acronym AD.
Os voting newsletters Not yet disclosed but the inclusion of AD in the document, on election day, could soften the confusion with the – party that reached a about 102,000 votes. In 2024 the voting report had the acronyms and symbols of PSD, CDs and PPM; And he had written, in full, “democratic covenant” – but he was not read “ad” anywhere, either in the text, nor in the images. But it is not yet known how the coalition will emerge in the bulletin.
