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The results of this Sunday’s legislative elections brought, on the right, two great winners, who still fell short of their goals, and a small victory with flavor the defeat. On the left, two defeats of biblical proportions.
AD won Sunday’s legislatures with a “major majority” than that achieved in 2024, on an election night marked by PS resounding defeatwhich provoked that of its secretary general, Pedro Nuno Santos.
The socialist leader announced the summons of internal elections, in which he will not be a candidate, at a time when the PS is at risk of losing The Statute of largest opposition party.
With the four mandates of the circles of emigration yet to attribute, the Socialist Party closed the electoral night with a larger number of votes than it arrives, but both with 58 elected deputies.
If the results of 2024 from the circles of Europe and outside Europe are repeated, the Arrives will exceed the PS As the second largest parliamentary group of the Assembly of the Republic, following the PSD. In 2024, of the four terms in dispute, two went to the arrival, one for AD and one for the PS.
Electoral night brought Great winners, huge defeated – And some victories with Flavor to defeat.
The Great Winners
Luís Montenegro And its democratic alliance is the first great sellers of these legislatures.
Against everything and against All, all, all Those who bet on based their campaign on spinumvivawhich motivated the fall of the government and the calling of elections, the Ad increases the number of votesobtaining almost 5 more percentage points than those achieved in 2024.
With these results, the PSD/CDS-PP coalition elects at least 89 deputies, reinforcing its representation In the Assembly – whose composition can, curiously, give the Prime Minister of Governability.
In addition, adding the 89 (probably 90), AD’s mandates at 58 to 60 of the arrival and the 9 of the liberal initiative, the three party formations exceed the two thirds of the deputies of the Assembly, necessary to approve proposals that require qualified majority, such as a Constitution Reviewwithout needing agreements with the parliamentary left.
It is an unavoidable victory of Luís Montenegro, who However, What was its primordial goal: to reach an absolute majority, even if it was with IL.
André Ventura It is the other great winner of this Sunday’s elections. With 22.56% of the votes and At least 58 deputiesthe arrival has achieved the best result ever and, if they overcome again in the circles of emigration, it will become the largest opposition party.
Despite having traced as the objective of winning the elections, which did not reach, André Ventura has been able to lead the party to a consistent growth Since 2019, the year that managed to elect a deputy to the Assembly of the Republic.
Still, in his own, the leader of the far-right party warns that the party “has not won.” For now, sweeping the left blockon the other side of second electoral circular“With a pint that had never seen each other” – and we haven’t seen anything yet, because “nothing will be like before”In politics in Portugal.
The great defeated
With 23.4% of the votes and 58 deputies, Pedro Nuno Santos’s PS recorded its Third worst result everafter 20.8% and 57 deputies in 1985 and 22.2% and 60 deputies from 1987, at a time when Parliament had 250 terms.
Pedro Nuno Santosthe face of this enormous defeat, assumed the responsibilities and said it will no longer be secretary general “the moment I can“, Stating not wanting to be” a hindrance to the party in the decisions you want to make. “
It was one Hecatombe of Bible Proportions For the PS, to which the left block did not escape either.
Mariana Mortágua accompanies Pedro Nuno Santos in the pantheon of the defeats of the electoral night. THE BE loses your parliamentary groupwhich even had 19 representatives in 2015 and 2019, and becomes a single deputy partyyour coordinator.
Blocking defeat gains more prominence after the bet to rescue the renovation for its candidate lists two heavy weights: The founder and former party leader Francisco Louçaand the historian Fernando Rosasthat.
Despite the copious defeat, unlike Pedro Nuno Santos, who fired, Mariana Mortágua confirmed its reconditeration to the party leadership at the convention scheduled for November.
Other victories
Rui Tavares It is one of the winners of the electoral night. On the left, its free party was the only party to record positive results, having achieved 4.2% of the votes and increased the parliamentary representation of 4 for 6 deputies.
With the huge drop in the block and the descent of the CDU, which, with 3.0% of the votes, goes from 4 to 3 deputies, the free is now the Largest Extremed Party.
However, with the current composition of the Assembly, the free company keeps the IL in the group of parties that aspired to be part of a solution Governing, but hardly will see an opportunity or need for this to happen.
The Assembly of the Republic will count on the new legislature with the debut of a party: the Together for the peoplethe second most voted political formation in Madeira, which managed to elect Filipe Sousa. This is the first time a regional root party has been a seat in Parliament.
With the entry of JPP and the maintenance of all other party formations, Parliament will again have the Record number of ten partiesas happened in 2019.
With flavor the defeat
Rui Rocha Won, but little. The initiative releases slightly increases its vote on 2024, and conquers another mandatenow counting on 9 Deputies in the Assembly of the Republic.
But IL’s little victory leaves the liberals short of what would be necessary To help form a parliamentary majority with AD – which also gets more deputies alone than the left joins.
Or bread of Inês Sousa Real The goal failed to have a parliamentary group again. But after being at risk of losing even the only representative he had, the party managed to make his spokesman. It is, in this case, a defeat that unexpectedly knows the victory.
A abstention continued to retreatregistering 35.6%, the lowest value since 1995, when it met in 33.7%. And the defeat of abstention knows the victory of democracy.
