The CDS – People's Party is a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Portugal. It is characterized as being between the centre-right and right-wing of the political spectrum. In voting ballots, the party's name appears only as the People's Party, with the abbreviation CDS–PP unchanged.
CDS-PP rally in January 2005 in Europarque, Santa Maria da Feira, with more than 5,000 people.
Paulo Portas was leader of the CDS-PP from 1998 to 2005, and again from 2007 to 2016.
Party logo, 1974–1982
Party logo, 1993–2009
1975 Portuguese Constituent Assembly election
Constituent Assembly elections were carried out in Portugal on 25 April 1975, exactly one year after the Carnation Revolution. The election elected all 250 members of the Portuguese Constituent Assembly.
Image: Mário Soares 1975b (cropped)
Image: Francisco Sá Carneiro
Image: Alvaro Cunhal 1980 (cropped)
Crowd celebrating the revolution in an armoured car.