The other left-wing parties, which had contributed to the fall of the government, are the great losers of the anticipated legislative. Another striking fact: the entrance to the far right to Parliament.
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“An absolute majority is not an absolute power, it is not governing alone, it is a responsibility, it is to govern with and for all the Portuguese.” With nearly 42% of the vote and Less 117 of the 230 seats of the Assembly of the Republic (pending the count of the Votes of the Portuguese residing abroad), the Prime Minister of Portugal, Antonio Costa, landed in the unifynger, late at night From Sunday 30 to Monday, January 31, since the headquarters of the Socialist Party, in Lisbon, where he celebrated his overwhelming victory in the anticipated parliamentary elections.
The Socialist won his bet. At the end of the vote, he confirms not only his mandate, but also obtains an absolute majority he has continued to ask voters in recent weeks. It will allow him to govern his hands free, without depending on his former left allies – neither the party of the left radical blocko nor the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP). In October 2021, these two courses refused to support the Finance Act, 2022, which they considered unambiguous in terms of public investment and social measures, and thus precipitated early elections.
“Without a stable majority, we will go to crisis in crisis,” Hammered during the campaign Mr. Costa, who had not wanted to yield to the requirements of the two parties to his left, with whom he ruled so much evil over the last six years. This fragile union of the left, nicknamed pejoratively the “geringonça”, the “bidule”, had allowed the socialist to delight the power to the right, yet in the lead in 2015. She lived.
“A concentration of useful vote “
With 4.5% of the votes and five members, fourteen less than at the 2019 legislative, the blocko is the main loser of the ballot. Of third political force, it goes to the sixth position on a recomposed political chessboard. “Mr. Costa has created an artificial crisis to get the absolute majority. His blackmail seems to have been successful. The false bipolarization has caused a concentration of the useful vote, which penalized the left,” commented, bitter, the leader of the block. , Catarina Martins. Same diagnosis among communists, which are content with 4.4% of the vote and five seats, seven less than in 2019.
This collapse of the Alternatives allows the Chega far-right party (“enough”) to take the third position, with 7.5% of the votes and twelve deputies. He had only harvested 1.3% of the votes and one seat in the 2019 legislative elections, which had seen him burst on the Portuguese political scene. “From now on, in Parliament, there will be no kind opposition to Antonio Costa,” said Sunday, Euphoric, his president, André Ventura, proposing to “give his dignity to this country”. This former exalted sports commentator is opposed to abortion, favorable to the death penalty, and willingly manie populist speeches with racist accents – he had proposed to confine the people of the trip during the pandemic.
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