Figure · 1924–2017
Mário Soares
Founder of the Portuguese Socialist Party
Opponent of Salazar and founder of the Socialist Party, he defended pluralist democracy after the Carnation Revolution; prime minister and then president (1986–1996), he took Portugal into the EEC.
«Socialism in freedom, within Europe.»
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In short
On the traditional scale, Mário Soares sits in the center-left camp. The clearest positions are on sovereignty: strongly towards “integration”; method: strongly towards “reform”; society: fairly towards “progress”; religion: fairly towards “secularism”. On devolution it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is social liberalism (95%).
Position on the 13 axes
Mário SoaresYou
EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
Social liberalismThe Reformer95%Green liberalismThe Green Innovator91%Social democracyThe Social Broker91%Closest parties in Europe
SDPFinland99%
Parti SocialisteFrance99%
Partido SocialistaPortugal99%
Labour PartyIreland98%Similar figures
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