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Portugal Popular Monarchist Party
The Popular Monarchist Party (Partido Popular
Monárquico--
PPM) favored the restoration of the Bragança royal family,
overthrown in 1910. Their program was complicated,
however, by
the existence of several competing Bragança pretenders to
the
throne. The PPM stood for a constitutional and limited
monarchy
similar to the one in Spain. This would mean that the
monarch was
a ceremonial chief of state, not a ruling head of
government. The
PPM argued that a monarchy would help unify the
government,
promote stability, and give the country a single, if
mainly
symbolic, head. In addition, the PPM campaigned for
ecological
concerns. Only once, in the 1987 elections for the EC, did
the
PPM win even 3 percent of the vote. Generally it won less
than 1
percent. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, the
PPM was
part of the AD governing coalition, which consisted mainly
of the
CDS and the PSD.
Data as of January 1993
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