List of political parties in Portugal
Left-wing

List of political parties in Portugal

Section Title: Left-wing
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Name	Abbr.	Leader	History	Founded

Portuguese Communist Party Partido Comunista Português	PCP	Central Committee (Secretary-General: Jerónimo de Sousa)	Founded in 1921 as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International, has its major influence among the working class and played a major role in the opposition to the Estado Novo regime, being brutally repressed in the process.	1921

Ecologist Party "The Greens" Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes"	PEV	Heloísa Apolónia	The first Portuguese green party, it is traditionally allied with the Communist Party in the Unitarian Democratic Coalition.	1982

Left Bloc Bloco de Esquerda	BE	Collective leadership (coordinator: Catarina Martins)	Formed as a result of the merger of three left-wing parties: the Popular Democratic Union, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, and the Politics XXI.	1999

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The Ecologist Party "The Greens" is a Portuguese political party.

final_sentence: The Ecologist Party "The Greens" is a Portuguese political party.