National Democratic Alternative
Alternativa Democrática Nacional
AbbreviationADN
PresidentBruno Fialho
Founded5 October 2014 (2014-10-05)
Legalised11 February 2015 (2015-02-11)
Split fromEarth Party
HeadquartersEstrada da Luz, 71
1600–165 Lisboa
Ideology
Anti-establishment[2]
Colours  Blue
Assembly of the Republic
0 / 230
European Parliament
0 / 21
Regional
parliaments
0 / 104
Local
government
0 / 2,078
Website
adn.com.pt

The National Democratic Alternative (Portuguese: Alternativa Democrática Nacional, ADN), originally the Democratic Republican Party (Portuguese: Partido Democrático Republicano, PDR) until October 2021, is a Portuguese political party, founded in 2014. It was founded in Coimbra on 5 October 2014 and was legalised by the Portuguese Constitutional Court on 11 February 2015. It was created by António Marinho e Pinto, an MEP formerly for the Earth Party. It was a member of the European Democratic Party,[3] and sat within the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group in the European Parliament.

In the 2015 legislative elections it did not succeed in electing a member of parliament, receiving 60,912 votes or 1.1% and coming 7th.

In 2022 the party attracted some attention for its denialist position on the Covid-19 pandemic after the party president claimed on a televised debate that "there wasn't an excess of mortality in Portugal because of Covid",[4] and that "there is proof that only 152 people died of Covid (in Portugal)".[5]

On september 22nd 2022 the party would leave the European Democratic Party due to ideological divergencies regarding the LGBT community.[6]

Electoral results

Assembly of the Republic

Election year # of overall
votes		  % of overall
vote		 # of overall
seats won		 +/- Notes
2015 60,912 1.1 (#7)
0 / 230
 N/A New party
2019 11,674 0.22 (#16)
0 / 230
 - -
2022 10,001 0.19 (#15)
0 / 230
 - -


References

  1. ↑ "PDR muda de nome para Alternativa Democrática Nacional (ADN) e tem novos estatutos". JM Madeira. 12 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "Contra testes, vacinas, máscaras e certificados. O que defende o novo partido ADN e que ligações tem aos movimentos negacionistas".
  3. ↑ "The PDR, new EDP member". Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Gomes, João Francisco. "Fact Check. "Não houve um excesso de mortalidade em Portugal por causa do Covid", como diz candidato da ADN Bruno Fialho?". Observador (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  5. ↑ SAPO. "O debate dos 11 partidos sem assento parlamentar e as 8 mentiras mais polémicas do confronto". Polígrafo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "ADN desvincula-se do PDE/EDP devido a posições polémicas – Partido ADN". June 2022.
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