Unitary Democratic Coalition (Portugal) (original) (raw)
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Coligação Democrática Unitária
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[![[CDU flag 2012 (PT)]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt%7Dcdu12.gif)
](../images/p/pt}cdu12.gif)2:3 image by Klaus-Michael Schneider,António Martins-Tuválkin and M. Schmöger, 13 Mar 2012
- Flag reported 2012
- Description of the 1999 flag
- C.D.U. flags 2005
- Presentation of C.D.U.
- Previous flag
- APU - United People Alliance
- FEPU - United People Elections Front See also:
- Portuguese political flags
- Portugal
Flag reported 2012
It is a white flag. All devices are shifted to the fly and of dark blue colour, an inscription "CDU" (very similar to German Christian Democrats/1st line) "PCP-PEV" (2nd line, smaller). Behind the lower inscription are two connected squares showing the logos of both allies. Those are hammer, sickle and star(PCP) and a sunflower (PEV)
Source: I spotted this flag in the building of the local PCP in Funchal, Rua Da Carreira on 22 February 2012
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 Mar 2012
Description of the 1999 flag
[![[CDU flag 1999 (PT) ]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt%7Dcdu99.gif)
](../images/p/pt}cdu99.gif)2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 1999
This image is quite accurate. The symbols are usually a little bigger, particularly the sunflower, but that’s very close. If I recall correctly, there’s an hyphen between the two acronyms on the logo.
Jorge Candeias, 20 May 1999
The flag is a white background with two adjacent white squares outlined in blue, the left square enclosing the sickle and hammer ofPCP in blue plus a white star fimbriated blue and the right square containing the sunflower from the Greens, with blue centre and white petals outlined in blue. Below this symbol lie the initials PCP - PEV, also in blue. Interestingly, this left-wing coalition uses the colours of… themonarchists!
Jorge Candeias, 20 May 1999
The letters came in the typeface "Ottawa", the Microsoft aka-name for "Optima", aka "Humanist 512".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 1999
C.D.U. flags 2005
| [![[CDU flag 2005 blue (PT)]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt%7Dcdu4b.gif)
](../images/p/pt}cdu4b.gif) 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Feb 2005 | [![[CDU flag 2005 red (PT)]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt%7Dcdu4r.gif)
](../images/p/pt}cdu4r.gif) 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Feb 2005 | [![[CDU flag 2005 green (PT)]](http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pt%7Dcdu4v.gif)
](../images/p/pt}cdu4v.gif) 2:3 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Feb 2005 | | | |
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These are three variant flags of portuguese communist coalition C.D.U., used in the current portuguese parlament (i.e. 1999) elections campaign:
Three identical flags - red, blue and green, with the coalition twin logo and lettering "PCP-PEV".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Feb 2005
The change from the previous flag to the twin logo happened when the Portuguese parliament passed a law stating that political party coalitions could not use any other logo than the logos of the constituent parties, which was made so to force the communists to use their own acronym and symbol in the elections.
António Martins, 18 May 1999, and_Jorge Candeias_, 20 May 1999
Presentation of C.D.U.
Coalition of the Portuguese Communist Party and the Ecologist Party “The Greens”. (By the way, no relation with German C.D.U., this is a communist organization!)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 1999
Previous flag
A previous flag had the coalition’s own symbol (three white hexagons pointing up thickly fimbriated blue, 1+2) on a white background, supposedly with lettering "CDU" or "CDU — Coligação Democrática Unitária".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 1999
If I recall correctly, both versions of lettering where used, and it (the lettering) was always there. Sometimes an arrangement of “graffiti-style” red and green lines was added.
Jorge Candeias, 20 May 1999
APU - United People Alliance
Before that, C.D.U. used as symbol three chain links likned toghether, green, red, green, on white background. Then this coalition had one more member (M.D.P.-C.D.E.) and it was called rather APU (Aliança “Povo Unido”); technically it was a different coalition, but in practice it is all the same, just another name for the Portuguese Communist Party (the other parties are quite small).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 18 May 1999
FEPU - United People Elections Front
And even before, it used the name "FEPU" (Frente Eleitoral “Povo Unido”) and the rings where thick hollow lozenges in the same colours. I’m not sure if the change of name corresponded in time to the change of symbol.
Jorge Candeias, 20 May 1999