The conservative Democratic Alliance coalition (AD, centre-right) leads with 33% of votes in this Sunday’s legislative elections in Portugal, after 50 percent of the counting has been completed.
Behind, with 28.75%, is the Socialist Party (PS), etcThe third force is the far right Chega, with 19.23% of the voteaccording to data from the Ministry of Internal Administration (of the Interior).
This is followed by the Left Bloc (2.99%), the Liberal Initiative (2.97%) and the alliance of communists and environmentalists CDU (2.38%).
These preliminary results indicate a shift to the right in the countryafter more than eight years of government by socialist Prime Minister António Costa.
Moreover, they reveal great progress on the far rightwhich in the 2022 legislative elections obtained 12 seats with 7.18% of the votes.
Around 10.8 million voters were called to the polls on Sunday in Portugal, in elections in which the favorite candidates to become prime minister are the socialist Pedro Nuno Santos and the conservative Luís Montenegro (AD).
These early elections come just over two years after the previous ones because Costa’s third mandate was halved due to his resignation last November, after the Prosecutor’s Office announced it was investigating him for alleged irregularities, even if the Ministry of Public Administration has just released information and there is no formal accusation against him.
Source: Clarin
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