In 1998, the Party formed a coalition with the People's Democratic Union, the Politics 21 and the Left Revolutionary Front, creating the Bloco de Esquerda (Leftwing Bloc). In 2005, in the last congress in the Party's history, it ceased to be a party, being now a political association, due to the good results of the Leftwing Bloc's existence.
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