The Republican Liberal Party (, PLR) was a political party in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...

. It was

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, nationalist and moderately conservative.

History

The party was established in 1919 by a merger of the

Evolutionist Party The Republican Evolutionist Party (, PRE), commonly known as the Evolutionist Party, was a political party in Portugal led by António José de Almeida. History The party was established on 24 February 1912 as the result of a split in the Port ...

and the Republican Union.

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1554 The new party emerged as the largest in the 1921 elections, winning 79 of the 163 seats in the House of Representatives and 32 of the 71 seats in the Senate. However, it was beaten by the Democratic Party in the

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. In 1923 the party merged with the Reconstitution Party and the

National Republican Party The National Republican Party, also known as the Anti-Jacksonian Party or simply Republicans, was a political party in the United States which evolved from a conservative-leaning faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that supported John ...

to form the Nationalist Republican Party.

References

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