United Party of Retirees and Pensioners

United Party of Retirees and Pensioners Partido Unido dos Reformados e Pensionistas

Leader	António Mateus Dias & Fernando Loureiro
Founded	July 13, 2015 (2015-07-13)
Headquarters	Rua Tenente Ferreira Durão, 56 – r/c Dtº 1350-317 Lisbon
Ideology	Pensioner rights Anti-Austerity
Political position	Centre
Assembly of the Republic	0 / 230
Website
http://www.purp.pt/
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The United Party of Retirees and Pensioners (Portuguese: Partido Unido dos Reformados e Pensionistas, PURP) is a Portuguese political party focused on securing the rights of pensioner.^[1] It was founded by António Mateus Dias and Fernando Loureiro and registered by the Portuguese Constitutional Court on 13 July 2015.^[2] It contested the 2015 Portuguese legislative elections.

The party is generally anti-austerity and sees itself as the defenders of the weak and vulnerable in Portuguese society, which also includes people in poor, neglected inland areas. They claim to be "defending the values of human dignity, freedom, justice and solidarity".^[3] Their main goal is to raise minimum pensions to the national minimum wage. Other goals are to promote transparency in the public sector, prevent corruption and cronyism, secure free health and education for ordinary people, non-discrimination on the grounds of age, race, religion and gender and separating political power from economic power.^[4]

Environmentalism

PURP has a Green agenda and wants to secure environmental protection and promote sustainable development, as a precautionary principle for future generations.^[5]

Foreign policy

In foreign policy, Portugal should advocate regulation of the economic and financial system at the global level as well as the abolition of tax havens and support the UN in obtaining these goals.^[6]

References

External links

Official website (Portuguese)

Political parties in Portugal

Parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic (230)	Social Democratic Party (89) Socialist Party (86) Left Bloc (19) CDS – People's Party (18) Unitary Democratic Coalition (17: Portuguese Communist Party, 15 — Ecologist Party "The Greens", 2) People–Animals–Nature (1)

Legislative Assembly of the Azores Autonomous Region (57)	Socialist Party (31) Social Democratic Party (20) CDS – People's Party (3) Left Bloc (1) Unitary Democratic Coalition (Portuguese Communist Party — Ecologist Party "The Greens") (1) People's Monarchist Party (1)

Legislative Assembly of the Madeira Autonomous Region (47)	Social Democratic Party (24) CDS – People's Party (7) Change Coalition (Socialist Party — Portuguese Labour Party — People–Animals–Nature – Earth Party) (6) Together for the People (5) Unitary Democratic Coalition (Portuguese Communist Party — Ecologist Party "The Greens") (2) Left Bloc (2) Independent (elected for the, now extinct, New Democracy Party) (1)

European Parliament (21)	Socialist Party (8) Social Democratic Party (6) Unitary Democratic Coalition (Portuguese Communist Party — Ecologist Party "The Greens") (3) Democratic Republican Party (1) Earth Party (1) CDS – People's Party (1) Left Bloc (1)

Non-parliamentary parties	Portuguese Workers' Communist Party LIVRE/Tempo de Avançar National Renovator Party Socialist Alternative Movement We, the Citizens! United Party of Retirees and Pensioners Citizenship and Christian Democracy Liberal Democratic Party Workers Party of Socialist Unity

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