The Democratic Intervention (
Portuguese: ''Intervenção Democrática'' or ID) is a
Portuguese left-wing
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political
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association founded in order to promote and defend
socialist
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ideas in Portugal and other countries. Members of it take part as independents in the
Unitary Democratic Coalition
The Unitary Democratic Coalition (, CDU) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party () and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" ( Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" or PEV). The coalition also integrates ...
electoral alliance, along with the
Portuguese Communist Party
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and the
Ecologist Party "The Greens"
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.
The association is the current owner and publisher of the journal
''Seara Nova'' (in Portuguese), an important publication in the intellectual resistance and fight against
''Estado Novo'', the Portuguese dictatorship of 1926–1974.
1987 establishments in Portugal
Political parties established in 1987
Political parties in Portugal
Socialist parties in Portugal
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