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Partido Social Democrata
Placement: Center-right
Social Democratic Party, despite its name Portugal's main center-right party, led by Prime Minister Luís Montenegro: it won the 2025 election in the Democratic Alliance with the CDS-PP and governs as a minority. Lower taxes, sound public finances, pro-Europeanism and NATO.
In short
On the traditional scale, Partido Social Democrata sits in the center-right camp. The clearest positions are on method: strongly towards “reform”; foreign policy: strongly towards “interventionism”; sovereignty: fairly towards “integration”; democracy: fairly towards “technocracy”. On state it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is ordoliberalism (95%).
Position on the 13 axes
Closest ideologies
OrdoliberalismThe Referee95%Third WayThe Modernizer90%Liberal conservatismThe Notary89%Similar parties
Christen-Democratisch AppelNetherlands97%
Tėvynės sąjunga – Lietuvos krikščionys demokrataiLithuania96%
Moderates (Blue Dog)United States96%
HorizonsFrance95%Closest figures
Positions are estimates based on documented ideas, platforms and actions, updated to October 2026.