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People Animals Nature

Environmentalist political party in Portugal

Field	Value
country	Portugal
name	People-Animals-Nature
native_name	Pessoas-Animais-Natureza
abbreviation	PAN
colorcode
logo	People-Animals-Nature logo.svg
leader	Collective leadership
spokesperson	Inês Sousa Real
foundation
legalised
ideology	{{ubl	class=nowrap
Environmentalism<ref name	"Portgual News"
Animal rights{{refn	<ref name	"Reuters"}}
Ecofeminism{{refn	<ref name	"Portugal.com"}}
membership	2,724
membership_year	2023
position	Centre-left
headquarters	Av. Almirante Reis, 81 B 1150-012 Lisbon
european	Animal Politics EU
European Green Party
europarl	Greens-European Free Alliance
colours	Teal
seats1_title	Assembly of the Republic
seats1
seats2_title	European Parliament
seats2
seats3_title	Regional
parliaments
seats3
seats4_title	Local government
(Mayors)
seats4
seats5_title	Local government
(Parishes)
seats5
website
footnotes
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People-Animals-Nature (, PAN) is an environmentalist, animal rights, and animal welfare-focused political party in Portugal, which was founded in 2009. In the 2011 Madeiran regional election, it had 2.13% of the votes, with a total of 3,135 votes, thus having elected one MP also in this regional parliament, Rui Manuel dos Santos Almeida. In 2015, they won one seat in the Assembly of the Republic.

In 2019, the People Animals Nature won one seat in the European Parliament, and increased their seat share to 4 in the Assembly (with 2 seats won in Lisbon, 1 in Porto, and 1 in Setúbal). In November 2021, on the brink of a political crisis, the then called geringonça (an informal left-wing alliance) imploded due to divergences regarding laboral legislations and the following year's state budget. PAN remained the only party in the parliament to abstain voting arguing that the country was not ready for another political and probably financial crisis in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. This political move had no effect in the end voting results and the government was dissolved by then President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

Ideology, political position and policies

People-Animals-Nature is commonly described as an environmentalist party. It has been described as becoming "known for fighting for animal rights", "fights against cruelty to animals", and as having an "animalist" ideology. The party has been described as holding ecofeminist and progressive ideologies. It has also been described as being "identified neither from the right nor from the left." Other sources have identified the party as being on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

In terms of policy, the party has "campaigned to invest in the national health service but does believe that the private and public sectors can work together", supports free transportation to combat climate change and cutting Portugal's corporate income tax rate to 17 percent by 2026. André Silva, the party MP and then spokesperson for the party, on the party's fifth anniversary in January 2016, said the party's visibility had highlighted "causes, values, messages, ideas and measures that nobody else talks about", such as "bull fighting, climate change and oil drilling", which he dubbed "forgotten subjects". Along with the political party LIVRE, PAN has "sparked conversations with proposals for unconditional basic income".

Election results

Assembly of the Republic

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Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats
Paulo Borges	57,849	1.0 (#7)		New
André Lourenço e Silva	75,140	1.4 (#6)		1
173,931	3.3 (#6)		3
Inês Sousa Real	88,152	1.6 (#7)		3
126,125	2.0 (#7)		0
86,930	1.4 (#8)		0

European Parliament

Election	Leader	Votes	Seats	+/–
Orlando Figueiredo	56,363	1.7 (#7)	New	–
Francisco Guerreiro	168,015	5.1 (#6)	1	G/EFA
Pedro Fidalgo Marques	48,006	1.2 (#9)	1	–

Regional Assemblies

Region	Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Government	Azores	2024	Madeira	2025
1,907	1.7 (#6)		0
2,323	1.6 (#8)		1

Municipalities

Municipality	Votes	Percentage	Local
assemblies	Albufeira	Almada	Amadora	Aveiro	Barreiro	Cascais	Faro	Horta	Lagos	Leiria	Lisbon	Loures	Mafra	Maia	Matosinhos	Moita	Odivelas	Oeiras	Porto	Póvoa de Varzim	Seixal	Setúbal	Sintra	Vila Franca de Xira	Vila Nova de Gaia
629	4.6%
3,340	5.0%
2,561	4.1%
1,508	4.4%
1,173	3.4%
4,006	5.2%
1,235	4.6%
392	4.8%
470	4.3%
1,988	3.2%
10,811	4.3%
2,637	3.1%
1,398	4.2%
3,046	4.2%
3,022	3.8%
1,060	4.3%
2,339	4.0%
3,183	3.9%
3,195	2.8%
1,397	4.7%
2,875	4.8%
1,859	4.1%
5,823	4.4%
2,468	4.6%
5,131	3.7%

Parishes

Municipality	Votes	Percentage	Parish
assemblies	Albufeira e Olhos de Água	Algés, Linda-a-Velha e Cruz Quebrada-Dafundo	Algueirão-Mem Martins	Arroios	Oeiras e São Julião da Barra, Paço de Arcos e Caxias	Penha de França	Olivais
392	4.8%
991	4.5%
1,038	4.7%
706	5.2%
1,192	4.2%
649	5.5%
672	4.52%

Local results

Date	Mayors	Parishes	+/-	Municipal Chamber	+/-	Municipal Assembly	+/-	Local Assembly	+/-
2013	0 / 308	hex=darkblue}} --	New	0 / 3,057	New	0 / 2,056	New	5 / 6,424	New	1 / 26,705
2017	0 / 308	hex=darkblue}} --		0 / 3,057		0 / 2,056		26 / 6,424	+21	6 / 26,705
2021	0 / 308	hex=darkblue}} --		0 / 3,057		0 / 2,056		23 / 6,424	-3	16 / 26,705

Organization

List of leaders

Name	Portrait	Constituency	Start	End	Prime Minister	1	3
Paulo Borges
(b. 1959)	[[File:Paulo Borges (Partidos Animalistas Europeos encuentro en Lisboa) (cropped).jpg	107x107px]]	Lisbon	10 April 2011	26 October 2014	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"	José Sócrates (2005–2011)
Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"		Pedro Passos Coelho (2011–2015)
André Silva
(b. 1976)	[[File:André Silva cropped.png	120x120px]]	Lisbon	26 October 2014	6 June 2021	Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"
Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"		António Costa (2015–2024)
Inês Sousa Real
(b. 1980)	[[File:Inês Sousa Real.jpg	119x119px]]	Europe (2011–2015)
Lisbon (since 2015)	6 June 2021	present	Socialist Party (Portugal)}}"
Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}}"		Luís Montenegro (2024–present)

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Elected members

Members of the Assembly of the Republic

Inês Sousa Real (Lisbon)
Inês Sousa Real (Lisbon)
Inês Sousa Real (Lisbon)
André Silva (Lisbon) – until June 2021 Nelson Silva – from June 2021
Inês Sousa Real (Lisbon)
Bebiana Cunha (Porto)
Cristina Rodrigues (Setúbal) – became independent in June 2020
André Silva (Lisbon)

Members of the European Parliament

Francisco Guerreiro – became independent in June 2020

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