Nine days after the elections in Portugal, uncertainty about the final result dissipates. The provisional data from the counting of the emigrants’ vote gives, for the moment, two seats to the extreme right of Chega, one to the conservative coalition Democratic Alliance (AD) and one to the Socialist Party (PS), according to the newspaper Public. … Read more
The Vox leader did not wait last Sunday for the vote count in Portugal to congratulate his Chega counterpart. “Congratulations to our Portuguese neighbors and friends. Congratulations André Ventura for this great result,” wrote Santiago Abascal on the social network In the presence of his Spanish guest, the Portuguese politician announced that, if he won … Read more
The Portuguese have turned to the right in the early elections held this Sunday in Portugal, although the victory of the conservative Democratic Alliance (AD) coalition was so close that the uncertainty lasted until around one in the morning. The final count will not be known for a few days. With 99% counted, AD had … Read more
More than a million Portuguese have voted for the far right in Sunday’s elections, called the same year that marks half a century since the Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the longest dictatorship in Western Europe. It seems ironic, although the leader of Chega, André Ventura, went further on election night and considered it “a settling … Read more
The Portuguese returned to the polls this Sunday, just two years after granting a historic absolute majority to the Socialist Party. In 2022, no one had anticipated the result that promoted its leader, António Costa, to the kingdom of heaven of the party founded by Mário Soares in 1973. But Portugal is a country of … Read more
The Portuguese have turned to the right in the early elections held this Sunday in Portugal, although the victory of the conservative Democratic Alliance (AD) coalition was so close that the uncertainty lasted until around one in the morning. The final count will not be known for a few days. With 99% counted, AD had … Read more
One day in 2018 André Ventura called his friend Nuno Afonso to ask for help in founding a new party in Portugal. Both were active in the Social Democratic Party (PSD, center-right), where Ventura had fallen out with its leader, the moderate Rui Rio, and had failed in his attempt to lead an internal revolt. … Read more