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![[Partido Popular (Portugal)#1]](../images/p/pt}pp.gif) image by Jorge Candeias, 4 Sep 1997 |
![[Partido Popular (Portugal)#2]](../images/p/pt}pp2.gif) image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Jan 2007 |
![[Partido Popular (Portugal)#3]](../images/p/pt}pp3.gif) image by Jorge Candeias and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Mar 2012 |
The People’s Party (PP - Partido Popular) is a populist-conservative
party that appeared in 1974 as Democratic and Social Center (CDS - Centro
Democrático Social) with an ideology somewhat undefined (they said they
represented the centre, but their voters were right-wing). Always elected
members of parliament, in the first years alone and later in coalition with
PPD, but before that participated in a governent in
coalition with PS. The coalition
PPD-CDS-PPM, called
Democratic Alliance (AD - Aliança Democrática)
won a few elections, and ruled the country for some years. After the breakdown
of the AD coalition, the party started to make some changes. Changed the
colours, changed its name, first to CDS-PP and then to PP and assumed itself
as a right-wing party.
Jorge Candeias, 4 Sep 1997
I saw yet another version of the flag of PP. The flag was peaking behind the party’s leader, Manuel Monteiro, in a black and white recent newspaper picture. It is just like the image I sent some days ago, except that it has in (presumably) yellow lettering the folowing in the upper hoist:
"CDS" in the upper row;This seems to be the most official version of the party flag now.
"Partido Popular" underlined in the lower row.
It seems that the currently most used version of the current flag of this party has the name and sigla
(full "CDS-PP") indeed on the upper hoist, but the former below the latter and both
centred to a common vertical axis. The central disc seems to be larger, too, but I postpone
further reGIFfing till we have exact specifications (see above central image).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 Jan 2007
In this variant the central disc is bigger and the yellow inscription in the upper hoist quarter is different:
"Partido Popular"(1st line) "CDS-PP"(2nd line, smaller)(see above right image).
Source: I spotted this flag hoisted at branch located in Funchal, Rua Da Carreira on 22 February 2012
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Mar 2012
Back in those hot revolutionary days of 1974-75 the only party that didn’t
have the aim «build a socialist society» in it’s program was the then CDS.
Everybody else claimed to wish the real socialism and each had their own ideas
of what the real socialism looked like. Naturally in those days, red flags
where seen everywhere. The only guys who didn’t use some variation of red
where the "centrists" of CDS with black and white (now
with yellow and blue)
and the monarchics, that used the traditional blue
and white colours of pre-republican Portugal.
Jorge Candeias, 17 May 1999
The CDS had a logo-on-a-bedsheet-type flag. The logo was a white square bordered
in black with a black filled circle in the center and two black arrows pointing to
the circle, one coming from the lower left corner and the other from the opposite
corner. The flag was white with the logo in black at the centre and
"CDS" underneath the logo.
Jorge Candeias, 04 Sep 1997
When the party changed its name, it also changed the colours of the flag to blue
field with yellow drawings. I don’t know exactly what’s their flag nowdays:
Jorge Candeias, 04 Sep 1997
I’ve seen the logo streched to fill a rectangular flag,…
Jorge Candeias, 04 Sep 1997
… I’ve seen a flag with a logo near the hoist and "Partido Popular"
in two rows at the fly,…
Jorge Candeias, 04 Sep 1997
… and I’ve seen the original design with "CDS-PP"
underneath the logo (although they now changed their name just to "Partido
Popular", the initials of the party are still CDS-PP, don’t ask me
why…).
Jorge Candeias, 04 Sep 1997
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2014
Light celestial blue variant with white logo and caption spotted in 2013
Source: own photo shot on 9 Oct 2013 somewhere in the Alfama
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Dec 2014