Coalition PSD/CDS
The PSD/CDS coalition (, PPD/PSD.CDS-PP) is a conservative political and electoral alliance in Portugal formed by the Social Democratic Party (PPD/PSD) and CDS – People's Party (CDS-PP). The coalition with just the two parties appeared for the first time in the 1997 local elections and, at the local level, it has been expanded in each following election till today.

The coalition was also on the ballot in the 2004 Azores regional election, but failed to win that election. The coalition is going to be on the ballot in the 2023 Madeira regional election.

On elections for the Assembly of the Republic, the coalition was only tried once, in the 2015 legislative election, and it polled ahead with almost 39% of the votes, but was unable to remain in power as it didn't gain enough seats for a majority. In the Presidential elections, the candidates supported by a PSD/CDS coalition have won every single election since 2006.

Election results

Assembly of the Republic

2015 legislative election
For the 2015 legislative election, PSD and CDS-PP ran under a coalition with the name Portugal Ahead. In the legislative election on 5 October 2015, the PSD/CDS-PP joint list received 36.9% of the vote and returned 102 seats in the Assembly of the Republic, with the PSD electing 5 deputies on standalone lists in Madeira and Azores.

Although the coalition won the elections, and surprised many analysts and pundits, the left parties together had a majority in Parliament, and opted to negotiate a confidence-and-supply agreement, thus refusing to allow for a second PSD/CDS-PP cabinet. For the first time in Portuguese democracy the Socialist Party, the second most voted political force in the elections, negotiated with the BE, the PCP and the PEV a formation of a new government.

Following the fall of the short-lived 20th Constitutional Government, the "natural" extinction of the coalition was declared on 16 December 2015 by Passos Coelho: "No formal act is necessary to put an end to it".

As Portugal Ahead (Portugal à Frente, PàF)

European Parliament

2004 European Parliament election

As Forward Portugal (Força Portugal, FP)

2014 European Parliament election
An alliance was formed as the Portugal Alliance (Aliança Portugal) for the 2014 European Parliament election, in which the alliance won 27.7% of the popular vote and 7 of Portugal's 21 seats in the European Parliament, sitting with the European People's Party Group.

As Portugal Alliance (Aliança Portugal, AP)

Regional Assemblies

2004 Azores regional election
As Azores Coalition (Coligação Açores, CA)

2023 Madeira regional election
As We are Madeira (Somos Madeira, SM)

Local elections
Only in contests where PSD and CDS-PP ran in a joint coalition.

Presidential elections

Leaders

Notes

References

External links
Official website (Portuguese)
2014 establishments in Portugal
2015 disestablishments in Portugal
CDS – People's Party
Defunct political party alliances in Portugal
Political parties disestablished in 2015
Political parties established in 2014
Social Democratic Party (Portugal)