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The Earth Party (Portuguese: Partido da Terra, previously called Movimento o Partido da Terra, pronounced [muviˈmẽtu u pɐɾˈtidu dɐ ˈtɛʁɐ], or MPT, Movement The Earth Party) is a Portuguese green party, founded on 12 August 1993.
Between 2005 and 2009, the party had two Deputies in the Assembly of the Republic: Pedro Quartin Graça and Luís Carloto Marques, elected on the lists of the Social Democratic Party, following an agreement with its then leader, Pedro Santana Lopes.
The President of the Political Committee is Pedro Quartin Graça and the Honorary President is Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles.
The party has participated in a number of coalitions with the major centre-right parties in the country, namely the Social Democratic Party and the People's Party.
Recent History
The party entered into a temporary electoral coalition with the pan-European Libertas movement for the European Parliament Election 2009 and received 23,415 votes.
It formed a coalition with the Humanist Party for the 2009 Portuguese General Election on mainland Portugal and received 12,307 votes. The party also received 3,240 votes in Azores and Madeira.
The 2009 Portuguese local elections were its best ever in terms of number of people elected, electing 2 councillors, 17 municipal assembly members and 47 parish councillors.
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