The Democratic Leftwing Republican Party was a political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

, led by José Domingues dos Santos

José Domingues dos Santos

José Domingues dos Santos was a Portuguese politician, jurist, professor and journalist who, among other positions, served as President of the Council of Ministers of one of the many governments of the Portuguese First Republic...

 (a former Prime Minister). It was founded in 1925 by leftwing dissidents of the Portuguese Republican Party

Portuguese Republican Party

The Portuguese Republican Party was a Portuguese political party formed during the late years of monarchy that proposed and conducted the substitution of the Constitutional Monarchy by the Portuguese First Republic....

. The party won seven parliamentary seats in the November 1925 election. The party existed for about two years.

Followers of the party were generally nicknamed canhotos. This term was used in contrast to the established PRP, whose followers were nicknamed bonzos.