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Chega’s vote share dropped from nearly 23% to 12%, winning only 3 mayor positions out of 308 amid a shift back to established parties, official results show.
- On Sunday, Chega won three out of 308 mayorships in Portugal, far below its prediction of 30, marking an electoral setback.
- Its vote share dropped to 12% compared with nearly 23% months ago, and Chega won fewer mayoralties than independent candidates with 20 and the Communist Party with 12.
- The ruling centre-right Social Democratic Party captured 136 mayoralties including Lisbon and Porto, while the centre-left Socialist party won 128.
- Ventura acknowledged the party fell short and stressed the need for a broader local base, while Jose Tomaz Castello Branco said Chega must prove it is `a strong enough local party and not a one-man show`.
- Chega's rise since 2019 has reshaped Portugal's political landscape, and it could still gain local legitimacy by pushing Social Democratic Party to breach cooperation red lines.
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Chega's Electoral Setback: Struggles of Portugal's Far-Right Party
Chega's Electoral Setback: Struggles of Portugal's Far-Right Party Portugal's far-right Chega party experienced a sobering anticlimax in the recent municipal elections, capturing a mere three mayorships across the nation, compared to the 30 they had ambitiously predicted. This result marks a steep fall from grace for the party, which had seen a meteoric rise earlier this year.In Sunday's election, Chega's vote share plummeted to 12%, a dramatic …
The Portuguese Chega party, which had hoped for thirty mayoral seats, ended up winning only three, although its leader, André Ventura, admitted that they had expected more. While some polls had already shown the xenophobic and pedophile-castrating movement as the most popular party, Chega's vote share was halved compared to the May parliamentary elections, winning 11.86 percent of the vote overall. The ruling center-right Social Democratic Party…
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