FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
The Portuguese Democratic Movement / Democratic Electoral Commissions (Portuguese: Movimento Democrático Português / Comissões Democráticas Eleitorais or MDP/CDE or just MDP) was one of the most important organizations of the democratic opposition to the Portuguese Fascist Regime. It was founded in 1969, being an electoral coalition meant to run to the non-democratic and widely manipulated parliamentary election. Image File history File links Mdp_cde_pt. ...
In 1973 MDP took part in the Democratic Congress of Aveiro, the biggest meeting of democratic militants during the reign of the dictature. After the Carnation Revolution, in 1974, it made part of every provisional governments, with exception of the 6th and in 1979 ran in coalition with the Portuguese Communist Party in the FEPU and later in APU, achieving important electoral results. The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese, Revolução dos Cravos) was an almost bloodless, left-leaning, military-led revolution started on April 25, 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a liberal democracy after a two-year process of a Left-wing semi-military... PCPs official symbol, featuring the hammer and sickle and the Portuguese national colors, red and green. ... Electoral Front United People (in Portuguese: Frente Eleitoral Povo Unido), was an electoral front of the Portuguese Communist Party and the Portuguese Democratic Movement / Electoral Democratic Commissions in the 1976 municipal elections. ... United People Aliance symbol United People Aliance (Portuguese: Aliança Povo Unido or APU), was an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party or PCP and the Portuguese Democratic Movement or MDP. The coalition was formed for the first time in 1979 in order to run to the...
In 1987, in dissidence with the PCP the party didn't participated in the coalition and was later disbanded, a fraction formed the political association Democratic Intervention (Portuguese: Intervenção Democrática) and another group formed a new party, the Politics XXI (Portuguese: Política XXI) that now is part of the Leftwing Bloc. The Democratic Intervention (Portuguese: Intervenção Democrática or ID) is a Portuguese left-wing political association founded in order to promote and defend Socialist ideas in Portugal. ... Leftwing Bloc (Portuguese: Bloco de Esquerda) is a Portuguese left-wing political party founded in 1999. ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: République Démocratique du Congo) — also referred to as DRC, DR Congo, Congo and Congo-Kinshasa, and formerly Zaire (or Zaïre in French) — is a nation in Central Africa and the third largest country on the continent.
The Congo is situated at the heart of the west-central portion of sub-Saharan Africa and is bounded by (Clockwise from the west) Angola, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania across Lake Tanganyika, and Zambia.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the only country in the world in which bonobos (Pygmy chimpanzees) are found in the wild.
The Portuguese legislative election of 1975 took place on April 25, exactly one year after the Carnation Revolution and was the first free legislative election in fifty years, the first in the new democratic regime created after the revolution which made the turnout the highest ever.
The Social Democratic Party was the second most voted party, defending a project that it would soon abandon, the social-democracy becoming the major right-wing party in the country a few years after.
The Portuguese Communist Party achieved a surprisingly low voting, considering the overwhelming support in the south of the country and the radical turn to the left of the revolutionary process after the failed fascist coup, one month before.
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