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Democratic Alliance (Portugal)

AD - Aliança Democrática

2:3, image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 Dec 2017

AD flag

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Portugal
P.P.D./P.S.D. Democratic People’s Party / Social-Democrat Party

AD flag

The coalition PPD-CDS-PPM was called Democratic Alliance (AD - Aliança Democrática), won a few elections, and ruled the country for some years.
Jorge Candeias, 0 Sep 1997

The main parties in A.D. were P.S.D. (largest; previously known, in the mid 1970s, as P.P.D.) and C.D.S. (this was before its own name change/enlargment to C.D.S.-P.P.)
While searching for campaign material (leaflets, posters, stickers) showing this ubiquitous three-diagonal-stripes-on-lower-right-corner motif, I found this 1980 photo, showing indeed the said pattern, barely visible, on sticker badges worn by the three speakers at the podium, but also two differently designed A.D. flags, flanking a national flag (the "molten" design, still common place at the time — not yet here.
The flag of A.D. was white with dark blue and light orange stripes along the top and bottom edges and reading "AD"in thick, squarish, dark blue serifless capitals on the center. The color stripes are two blue and one orange in each "ribbon", interspersed by white stripes/gaps of identical width, the outer blue stripe noticeably wider (which could be a manufacturing artefact).
Note that Presidential elections in Portugal are disputed by individual candidates, who may or may not have the support of one or several parties. Often times this is pretty much a shame with candidates being party apparatchniks, but formally/nominally the campaign is run in the candidate´s name, not the party/parties´; to go around this obligation, when needed, often presidential campaign material mimics the sponsoring party´s own graphic style — which was the case for A.D. in both 1980 election campaigns.
Therefore there might have been flags in the same design, but with green for blue and red for orange, bearing "Soares Carneiro" on the middle.
The flags were used in two electoral campaigns in 1980: The October parliament elections (in orange and blue), and in the ill-fated December presidential elections (in red and green).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 Dec 2017

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