Popular Unity Party (Portugal)

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Popular Unity Party

Founded	1974
Ideology	Communism Marxism-Leninism
Politics of Portugal Political parties Elections

Popular Unity Party (Portuguese: Partido de Unidade Popular) was a political party in Portugal. PUP was founded in December 1974 by the Mendes fraction of the Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist-Leninist).

After the 1975 elections PUP was renamed Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Committee (Comité Marxista-Leninista Português).

In 1976 CMLP merged with the Portuguese Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization and the Organization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) to form the Portuguese Communist Party (Reconstructed).

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Estado Novo (1933–1974)	Movement of Democratic Unity Movement of National Antifascist Unity National Union Portuguese Marxist–Leninist Committee Portuguese National Liberation Front Revolutionary Party of the Proletariat - Revolutionary Brigades
Third Republic (1974–)	Christian Democratic Party Communist Electoral Front Communist Party (Reconstructed) Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist–Leninist) Democratic Party of the Atlantic Democratic Renewal Party Hope for Portugal Movement Humanist Party Independent Movement for the National Reconstruction / Party of the Portuguese Right Independent Social Democratic Action Internationalist Communist League Left-wing Union for the Socialist Democracy Left Revolutionary Front Marxist–Leninist Committee of Portugal Movement for the Sick Movement of Socialist Left National Solidarity Party New Democracy Party People's Socialist Front Politics XXI Popular Democratic Union Popular Unity Party Portuguese Democratic Labour Party Portuguese Democratic Movement Portuguese Marxist–Leninist Communist Organization Revolutionary Socialist Party Worker–Peasant Alliance Workers Politics Communist Organisation Workers' Revolutionary Party