In Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Portugal, the ruling center -right democratic alliance (AD) won, this results from official results. However, the majority in parliament has not been awarded and is likely to rule as a minority government, it reports TASR based on AFP reports, LUSA and Deutsche Welle (DW).
Ad in the elections, 32.7 percent of the votes won and occupies 89 seats. The opposition Socialist Party (PS) with 23.4 percent came second and third with 22.6 percent of the votes ended up with the right-wing-populist Party of Chega (enough).
According to LUSA, Between PS and the LUSA party, just over 48,000 votes made up the difference. Both parties in parliament will occupy 58 seats.
PS PS Pedro Nuno Santos announced early in the morning that he would withdraw from his post in response to defeat in parliamentary elections. “I will declare the internal party elections in which I will not run,” Santos said.
Prime Minister Luis Montenegra’s winning party would need to get up to 116 parliamentary seats. Montenegro has in the past rejected cooperation with Cheg, which he described as “unreliable” and “unsuitable for governance”.
Four more chairs remain in Parliament to represent the Portuguese living abroad. However, the results of who gets them will only be known in a few days.
Sunday elections were the third parliamentary elections in Portugal over three years. According to AP, the next minority government will probably not end the worst episode of political instability in the country for decades.
The election was announced by President Marcelo, after Montenegro failed in March to pronounce confidence in Parliament, which he himself proposed after allegations of conflict of interest related to his business company’s business. The company had several clients who had government contracts. Montenegro denied a mistake that he did not participate in the management of the company he now handed over to his children.
