The conservative Democratic Alliance (AD) has won the legislative elections in Portugal without achieving the absolute majority again, while the socialists and the extreme right dispute the second position, according to the polls at the ballot box made by the media. The Portuguese Prime Minister, Luís Montenegroit could be re -elected, but I would need the Socialist party or the ultra -rightist He arrives They would facilitate governance.
In the following link you can consult the situation of real -time scrutiny. Remember that the Assembly of the Republic It is formed by 230 seatswhich means that the absolute majority is set in the 116 deputies. Although the vote count is usually fast, the assignment of seats can take several hours.
The survey prepared by the Catholic University for the Public chain RTP gives a fork of between 29% and 34% of the votes For AD, which would be equivalent to Between 85 and 96 seats Of the 230 that has the Assembly of the Republic, where the absolute majority is located in 116 deputies. The Socialist Party (PS) would get Between 21% and 26% And Chega would move Between 20% and 24%so the second position would be in the air.
CNN Portugal poll grants between 29.1% and 35.1% From suffrages to AD; between 19.5% and 25.5% The arrival; Y between 19.4% and 25.4% To the socialists. Meanwhile, the SIC survey and the express weekly da between 30.3% and 34.7% to the Montenegro coalition, followed by the PS, with between 21.6% and 26.8% And Chega with between 19.9% and 24.1%.
The main candidates
The Portuguese have celebrated this May 18, 2025 parliamentary elections In just five and a half years for the same reason that, just over a year ago, he pushed the socialist António Costa to leave office and call elections at the end of 2023: for a judicial case. is now investigated by some controversial family businesseswhich is why and focused on Portugal to a new political crisis.
In addition to Montenegro, the other outstanding chips of the SonN board Pedro Nuno Santosof the Socialist partyy André Venturaof He arrives.
Portugal’s acting prime minister Luís Montenegro still does not know if the judicial case against him will prosper. Even so, he has decided to relaunch his campaign with the intention to stay in charge of the Executive.
The surveys support it, place it in front of the Socialist Party and reflect that the main criticisms to their management are focused on issues such as public health, economy or the fight against corruption, rather than by the family business spinumvivawhich precipitated the fall of his government.
The Acting Prime Minister of Portugal, Luís Montenegro. / Europa Press
Montenegro, a native of Porto, was forged in the local policy of the people where he grew up, Espinho, and has a Race of more than 25 years in the PSDone of the forces that make up the Democratic Alliance Coalition (AD), together with the Democristian CDS-PP. In front of the ultra -right, he has already warned that It has no intention of agreeing with the chega extremist partyas did after the elections of March 2024.
The candidate of the Socialist Party (PS) of Portugal, Pedro Nuno Santos, known for being from the Radical branch of the party and considered the ‘enfant terrible‘For years, he faces Sunday’s legislative elections with a more conservative profile and with the goal of recovering the land lost in 2024, when the party lost the absolute majority and became an opposition leader.
Pedro Nuno Santos en Un Metin en Lisboa. / Filipe Amorim | AFP
Born in São João da Madeira, he led the game since the end of 2023. In 2015 he carried out the ‘geringonça’ negotiations, the Agreement of leftist matches which made António Costa in Prime Minister despite having been defeated in the elections. After that, he occupied the Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs And in the following legislatures he was Minister of Infrastructure and housing.
These elections arrive with a Moderate profile and proposals such as Annual minimum wage increase, reduction of working hours, VAT zero For the shopping basket and expansion of rental aid. Besides, coincides with conservatives in which IRPF must be reduced, offer public guarantees in credits for the purchase of the first house and reduce bureaucracy in justice.
André Ventura, leader of the Portuguese ultra -rightist party ChegaHe is a man of a thousand trades. He graduated as a lawyer, passed through the seminar, was a writer of ‘Best Sellers’ and became known as a sports commentator. In the May 18 elections he faces one of his greater challengesdemonstrate that his extreme right -wing recipe is not a passing episode in Portugal.
André Ventura, the leader of Portuguese Rate. / Miguel Pereira da Silva | EFE
In the 2024 legislative elections, Chega achieved a historical result by obtaining 50 of the 230 seats of Parliament, an unprecedented brand in half a century of Portuguese democracy. On this occasion, Ventura seeks to consolidate and even Expand that successalthough he will not be able to participate in the closure of the campaign after being hospitalized for health problems on Monday.
With a speech xenophobic and provocative against the gypsy community, Ventura has led a personalist campaign and has focused on social networks, where he has dedicated himself to propagating disinformation. His profile retains certain nuances that away from other figures of the International ultra -rightsince it does not propose to repeal the law of abortion and maintains distance with leaders such as Donald Trump is Marine the Pen.
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