The CDS-PP was the minor coalition party in Portugal’s last government led by Pedro Passos Coelho of the Social Democratic Party
Paulo Portas is the party leader who has been in his job for longest.

His leadership of the CDS-PP began in 1998 and since then he has only been out of the top spot for two years between 2005 and 2007, when José Ribeiro e Castro took over the reins.


Former agriculture minister Assunção Cristas is one of the names being floated as a potential replacement