The Earth Party (Portuguese: Partido da Terra, ), previously called The Earth Party Movement, Movimento o Partido da Terra, abbreviated MPT (hence called MPT – Partido da Terra), is a Portuguese green party, founded on 12 August 1993.
Between 2005 and 2009, the party had two Deputies in the Assembly of the Republic: Pedro Quartin Graça and Luís Carloto Marques, elected on the lists of the Social Democratic Party, following an agreement with its then leader, Pedro Santana Lopes.
The President of the Political Committee is John Rosas Baker, elected by the VIII Party Conference on 17 December 2011 and the Honorary President is Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles.
The party has participated in a number of coalitions with the major centre-right parties in the country, namely the Social Democratic Party and the People's Party.
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“If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if the town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)