Portugal: Center Right Wins but Far Right Snaps at Heels

Portugal: Center right wins but far right snaps at heels

The Socialists took a drubbing in Portugal's snap elections. The governing center right emerged victorious, but it is Chega’s meteoric ascendancy that has really made waves.

Shocking Election Results in Portugal

Portugal handed up shocking wins this week when the right-wing won it all over the socialists. Most surprising was the dramatic rise of a new ‘right-wing’ populist group called ‘Chega,’ founded only in 2019. They went from taking 1.3% in that first election to 23% and tying for second place yesterday. In only six short […] The post Shocking Election Results in Portugal appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

In the election in Portugal, the right-wing populists have surprisingly cut off. For the victorious conservatives of Prime Minister Montenegro, it is now all the more difficult to form a stable government. By K. Böker and A. Mundt.

Portugal has woken up this Monday with a radical change in its political system and the values it represents. Chega, the extreme right-wing Luso party, may be the second most voted when the ballots of the diaspora are counted. For now, it is the third force, but with the same deputies as the Socialist Party (58), and it has dethroned the foundational binomial of the power of the last 51 years of Portuguese democracy.It oscillated between the Soc…

The Portuguese Election Marks a Shift to the Right

The Portuguese exception is over. In the elections held on May 18, the country experienced a clear shift to the Right: the conservative coalition Democratic Alliance (AD) emerged as the leading force (32 percent of the votes), while the Socialist Party (PS) barely edged out the far-right Chega (“Enough!”) for second place, each with around […]

Although the conservative Democratic Alliance has once again become the strongest party in Portugal, the right-wing Chega is growing strongly and can be regarded as a true winner. For the socialists, the election result is a disaster. The parliamentary election in Portugal yesterday Sunday showed that voters are demanding change. Although the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) under Prime Minister Luís Montenegro won, without an absolute majo…