Evolutionist Party

Politics of Portugal
Constitution
Executive President (list) Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Prime Minister (list) Luís Montenegro Cabinet
Legislature Assembly of the Republic President: Augusto Santos Silva
Judiciary Constitutional Court Supreme Court of Justice Court of Auditors Supreme Administrative Court
Elections Recent elections Presidential: 2016 2021 2026 Legislative: 2019 2022 2024 Local: 2013 2017 2021 European: 2014 2019 2024 Political parties Politicians
Administrative divisions Districts Autonomous regions Municipalities (list) Freguesias (list)
Foreign relations Spain-Portugal relations Portugal–United Kingdom relations France–Portugal relations Italy–Portugal relations Brazil-Portugal relations Portugal–United States relations China–Portugal relations Angola–Portugal relations Mozambique–Portugal relations Canada–Portugal relations Portugal–Sweden relations
Portugal portal Other countries
v t e

The Republican Evolutionist Party (Portuguese: Partido Republicano Evolucionista, 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 Portuguese Republican Party that led to the creation of the PRE, the Democratic Party and the Republican Union.^[1] It won 26 seats in the House of Representatives and nine seats in the Senate in the 1915 parliamentary elections, emerging as the second-largest faction after the Democratic Party.

The party boycotted the 1918 elections,^[2] but returned to run in the 1919 elections, in which it won 38 House seats, regaining its place as the second-largest party.

After Almeida became president in 1919, the party merged with the Republican Union to form the Republican Liberal Party during the same year.^[1]

References