Rise Up (, E), originally the National Renewal Party (, PNR) was a Portuguese
far-right
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nationalist
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political party. Its motto is ''Nation and Work'' () and one of its goals consisted in the appreciation of a Portuguese nationalist spirit.
The party results legally from the alteration of statutes approved in the VII Nacional Convention of the old
Democratic Renewal Party (PRD) requested on March 17, 2000 and validated by the Constitutional Court on April 12,
2000
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. This change implicated in the change of name, acronym and logo. In a report published by the North American
NGO
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GPAHE against hate and extremism, Ergue-te was classified, along with
ADN and
Chega, as a hate and far-right group.
The party was extinct in June 2025, after not presenting the party's finances to the Contitutional Court in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
History
In the
2005 legislative election, the then PNR obtained just under 0.2% of the vote, failing to elect any deputies to Parliament by a wide margin. In the
2009 European election, the party had about 13,000 votes, having 0.37% of the vote, the party had its higher results in the districts of
Lisbon
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and
Setúbal
Setúbal ( , , ; ), officially the City of Setúbal (), is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the entire municipality in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of . The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies withi ...
. An increase of just over 50% in comparison to
2011
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was seen in
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
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Events
January
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, the year the party most increased in votes, having received 27,269 votes in the legislative elections.
On July 10, 2020, wanting to change its public image and undo misconceptions arising from the confusion between the acronyms PNR and PDR —the former Republican Democratic Party (), now named
National Democratic Alternative—, it changed its name to Ergue-te, with the acronym E, this alteration was accepted and registered by the Constitutional Court following deliberation taken by the National Council of PNR on November 23, 2019.
In December 2024,
José Pinto Coelho left the party's leadership, being replaced by Rui Fonseca e Castro, a former judge who was a
COVID-19 vaccine conspirationist. The party ended up becoming extinct in June 2025, due to finantial problems.
Ideology
The party has been described as
Islamophobic
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and opposes both Portugal's
NATO
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membership and Europe's
Islamization
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.
Its
party platform
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for the
2024 election includes
opposition to multiculturalism, restrictions on immigration, changing the
nationality law
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so it's based on
Ius sanguinis
( or , ), meaning 'right of blood', is a principle of nationality law by which nationality is determined or acquired by the nationality of one or both parents. Children at birth may be nationals of a particular state if either or both of thei ...
, opposition to
euthanasia
Euthanasia (from : + ) is the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering.
Different countries have different Legality of euthanasia, euthanasia laws. The British House of Lords Select committee (United Kingdom), se ...
and same-sex marriage, and abolishing the
right to strike
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became c ...
.
Organization
Leadership
Youth wing
The "Nationalist Youth" () was founded as the PNR's
youth wing
A youth wing is a subsidiary, autonomous, or independently allied front of a larger organization (usually a political party but occasionally another type of organization) that is formed in order to rally support for that organization from members ...
. Since the beginning of 2006, it has tried recruiting students at secondary schools and in universities. This situation has drawn the authorities' attention, which sent a report to the Ministries of
Education
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and
Internal Administration. According to the report, even though the PNR was a legalized party at the time, there was a real risk of transmitting
xenophobic
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ideas to young people, which would allegedly promote violence. The Youth's leader confirmed this recruitment, refuting, however, the transmission of messages with a criminal or violent nature to young people.
After the name change in 2020, the party youth was renamed (translatable as “Boyfriends'/Lovers' Wing”), inspired by the right-wing of the Portuguese army in the
Battle of Aljubarrota
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, composed of young unmarried nobles.
Electoral performance
Assembly of the Republic
European Parliament
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Public profile
Public demonstrations
E has been involved in many controversies. In 2006, it got involved in the demonstration by security forces agents against the government. The ''Diário de Notícias'' article about the participation of the then PNR reads:
"''It was total chaos. It had been almost 120 minutes from the set time for the beginning of the parade by the security force agents against the government policies when the organizers arrived at the Marquis of Pombal Square to warn that, after all, there wasn't going to be a demonstration. With the argument that the PSP, GNR, Maritime Police and Foreigners and Border Services agents refused to "parade next to neonazis" (and PNR representatives) that had gathered there to participate. And with fear that there was going to be conflicts between both sides. The decision by the organizers - the Permanent Coordinating Committee of Unions and Associations of Security Forces and Services - enraged the agents of many task forces. The protests increased in tone, confusion arose and, all of a sudden, when they least expected it, the security forces agents passed over the organizer's decision and started their parade. The Coordinating Committee had lost control over the situation. The parade was, indeed, done, until Terreiro do Paço, where the Ministry of Internal Affairs was. There, the agents demanded changes in the health system, retirement and better work conditions. The far-right militants, after having had a stage to talk to the media started to disperse, seeing groups here and there along the parade. But they didn't follow the demonstration behind the police forces."''
Criminal controversies
Some of its members were convicted of
racial discrimination
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and violent crimes, among others, the murder of a
PSR leader (
José Carvalho
José Carvalho (born June 11, 1964 in Salvador, Brazil) is a Brazilian screenwriter, script doctor and dramaturgy professor. He has written scripts for the big and small screens since the early 90s. Some of his most well-known works include Caste ...
) and the racially motivated murder of
Alcindo Monteiro, after being linked to right-wing armed groups such as the
National Front and Portuguese
Hammerskins
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. However, the way these groups act had led to a distancing by the then PNR towards said groups. As a result, the former Portuguese
Hammerskins
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leader Mário Machado has decided to try to create a new party, the
New Social Order.
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Notes and references
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