Ergue-te (Portuguese political party)

The Rise Up (Portuguese: Ergue-te, E) is a Portuguese far-right[1][2][3][4][5] nationalist political party. It was named National Renewal Party (Partido Nacional Renovador) until July 2020

Rise Up Ergue-te
President	José Pinto Coelho
Founded	12 April 2000 (2000-04-12)
Preceded by	Democratic Renovator Party National Action Movement
Headquarters	Lisbon
Youth wing	Revonator Nationalist Youth (Juventude Nacional Renovadora)
Ideology	Portuguese nationalism National conservatism Social conservatism Right-wing populism Euroscepticism Anti-immigration Islamophobia Anti-LGBT rhetoric
Political position	Far-right
European affiliation	Alliance of European National Movements
Colours	Black, Blue and Red
Assembly of the Republic	0 / 230
European Parliament	0 / 21
Regional parliaments	0 / 104
Local Government	0 / 2,086
Website
www.pnr.pt
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History

The PNR was established in February 2000.[6] In July 2020, the party was renamed to "Ergue-te" (Rise up)

Controversy

One of the boards which have caused controversy (the second, after the first one was vandalised), at the Marquis of Pombal Square, in Lisbon.

Although in the past the party did not reject connections to so-called neo-Nazi racist movements,[7] it claims to be a target of political persecution. In their youth, some of its former members were convicted for racial discrimination and violent crimes, such as the racially motivated murder of Alcindo Monteiro in Lisbon, after being linked to far-right armed groups such as the Portuguese Hammerskins. In recent years, however, the party has expelled its members that have connections to this kind of groups and, as a result, the former Portuguese Hammerskins leader Mário Machado has decided to try to create a new party, the New Social Order.[8]

Election results

In the 2005 legislative elections, the then PNR obtained just under 0.2% of the vote, failing to elect any deputies to Parliament by a wide margin. In the 2009 European election, the party had about 13,000 votes, having 0.37% of the vote, the party had its higher results in the districts of Lisbon and Setúbal. 2015 was the year the party most increased in votes, having received 27,269 votes in the legislative elections. An increase of just over 50% in comparison to 2011.

Assembly of the Republic

Election	# of votes	% of vote	# of seats	Place
2002	4,712	0.09%	0	10th
2005	9,374	0.16%	0	9th
2009	11,503	0.20%	0	12th
2011	17,548	0.31%	0	10th
2015	27,269	0.50%	0	10th
2019	17,126	0.33%	0	13th

European Parliament

Election	# of votes	% of vote	# of seats	Place
2004	8,405	0.25%	0	11th
2009	13,214	0.37%	0	12th
2014	15,036	0.46%	0	12th
2019	16,014	0.49%	0	13th

Notes and references

1. da Costa, José Mourão (2011). "O Partido Nacional Renovador: a novadireita na democracia portuguesa". Análise Social. 46 (201): 765–787. JSTOR 41494872.
2. "http://www.opiniaopublica.ufmg.br/emdebate/Artigo_EAnita12.pdf" (PDF). opiniaopublica.ufmg.br. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2018. External link in |title= (help)
3. Tostes, Ana Paula (June 2009). "Reasons for intolerance in integrated Europe". Dados. 52 (2): 335–376. doi:10.1590/S0011-52582009000200003. ISSN 0011-5258.
4. Rocha, Frederico Pedroso (March 2014). "A Direita Radical E As Eleições Europeias Em 2014: Nacionalistas Em Busca De Pontes". Relações Internacionais (R:I) (41): 63–79. ISSN 1645-9199.
5. de, Almeida, Fábio Chang (2014). "A direita radical no Portugual democrático : os rumos após a revolução dos cravos (1974-2012)". hdl:10183/114413. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
6. "Political Parties in Portugal". Translation Company Group. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
7. Actualidades 7 Junho, 2006 Presidente do PNR solidário com Mário Machado Archived 23 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
8. "Observador May 2014

Bibliography

• Marchi, Riccardo (2013). "The Extreme right in 21st-Century Portugal: the Partido Nacional Renovador" (pdf). In Ralf Melzer; Sebastian Serafin (eds.). Right-Wing extremism in Europe. pp. 132–155. ISBN 978-3-86498-522-5.