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It is a white-dark blue-yellow horizontal tricolour with stripes of equal width. In the canton is the logo of the party. Its height is 2/3 of the complete height, i.e. it covers the white and the dark blue stripe.
I don't want to make interpretations and thus I limit myself on geometric structures. The appearance of the logo is different. I describe that one as seen on flag canton. The logo is rectangular, on centre is a white fess with a half circle of the same issuant to top from the centre of the fess. Both are cotised dark blue and yellow at the top edge. Emerging from that border are nine yellow rays pointing upwards on a dark blue background. Under the fess the background is barry of 14 of dark blue and white. Over all emerging from the centre of the half circle are 11 yellow rays pointing downwards and fimbriated dark blue on the part on fess, which there formes an isosceles yellow triangle. The centrl three of those rays are cut and replaced by a stylised yellow inscription "PDA".
Source: this newspaper, online edition 14 Sep 2015
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Nov 2024
Different depictions of the logo can be seen here and here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Nov 2024
A sort of Togo-like flag design (only with even less stripes and with an even bigger canton), which is geometrically very simple and esthetically pleasing — and yet relatively seldom among flags at large. Good to see it in use, especially as it apparently replaced a flag described by Jorge Candeias. (Another example of this design is also a flag in use in 1970s insular Lusosphere: East Timor´s U.D.T. and its graphical successsor C.N.R.T..)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 Nov 2024
Most of the FLA members regrouped in the P.D.A., Partido Democrático do Atlântico, a national party (because of a constitutional article that prohibits regional parties) that gets nearly all it´s votes from the Azores (and also a bit from Madeira too) in a percentage that I don´t think ever reached 5% in the islands themselves. This party uses a white flag with the party logo in yellow and blue centered. The logo is too complex to describe adequately.
Jorge Candeias, 10 Aug 1999
According to source the party was based only on the Azores, precisely concentrated on the islands of São Miguel. It was established by former supporters of the New State, which is in plain words the fascist regime that ruled Portugal from 1926 to 1974. These "patriots" would rather make the Azores independent (and to later join the U.S. in a Puerto Rico type of deal) than suffer a leftist government at national level. It seldom obtained more than 1% of the votes in regional or national elections (even within the Azores).
The party had its origin in the Self-determination Movement for the Azorean People (Movimento para a Autodeterminação do Povo Açoriano / MAPA) founded in 1979 by Francisco da Costa Matos. The movement and later the party, promoted a form of home rule for the Azores, following the example of the Bermudas. While registered by the Supreme Court in 1979 as the Democratic Union of the Atlantic (União Democrática do Atlântico), it changed its name in 1983. The party remained completely unimportant during the following years and its registration was cancelled by the Constitutional Court of Portugal in 2015, after the party had failed to submit its required annual report for three consecutive years before.
Source: English WIKIPEDIA
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 22 Nov 2024 and António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 Nov 2024
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