The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) celebrated its 92nd anniversary on March 6, 2013 as one of the strongest communist parties in Western Europe and as the oldest Portuguese political party in continuous existence. The party’s strength has declined since its parliamentary electoral apex in 1979 when it obtained 19 percent of the vote. Still, in the 2011 parliamentary election it received a respectful 7.94 percent at the polls. Given that the PCP continues rooted in an orthodox, Marxist-Leninist foundation when most other international communist parties have evolved since the fall of the Soviet Bloc, these results are quite good.

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