People Animals Nature
People-Animals-Nature Pessoas-Animais-Natureza | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | PAN |
| Leader | Collective leadership |
| Spokesperson | Inês Sousa Real |
| Founded | 22 May 2009 |
| Legalised | 13 January 2011 |
| Headquarters | Av. Almirante Reis, 81 B 1150-012 Lisbon |
| Membership (2023) | 2,724 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-left[A] |
| European affiliation | Animal Politics EU European Green Party |
| European Parliament group | Greens-European Free Alliance |
| Colours | Teal |
| Assembly of the Republic | 1 / 230 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 21 |
| Regional parliaments | 1 / 104 |
| Local government (Mayors) | 0 / 308 |
| Local government (Parishes) | 0 / 3,058 |
| Election symbol | |
| Website | |
| pan.com.pt | |
^ A: Some sources state that the party is neither on the left nor the right. | |
People-Animals-Nature (Portuguese: Pessoas-Animais-Natureza, 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.