{"id":343566,"date":"2024-03-08T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T10:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/03\/08\/portogallo-elezioni-anticipate-10-marzo\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T12:48:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T11:48:56","slug":"portugal-heading-to-the-polls-amid-uncertainty-of-a-majority-moving-towards-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/08\/portugal-heading-to-the-polls-amid-uncertainty-of-a-majority-moving-towards-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal heading to the polls amid uncertainty of a majority moving towards the right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; All set\u00a0for early legislative elections in Portugal that could hand the country&#8217;s government back to the center-right after nine years\u00a0and, at the same time, bring the far right into a position of power for the first time since the fall of the dictatorship in 1976. After the surprise resignation at the end of last year of\u00a0Socialist prime minister <strong>Ant\u00f3nio Costa<\/strong>, two days ahead of the vote (Sunday, March 10), the <strong>Democratic Alliance<\/strong> bloc seems\u00a0favored to lead Portugal towards\u00a0European elections in June, although post-election alliance scenarios and the role that the right-wing nationalist <strong>Chega<\/strong> party will play remain uncertain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-map\" data-src=\"visualisation\/17078971\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/portugal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveys<\/a>, the coalition formed by the <b>Social Democratic Party<\/b> (PSD), <strong>Popular Party<\/strong> (CDS), and <strong>Popular Monarchist Party<\/strong> (PPM) is expected to come in first with between 31 and 32 percent of the vote, just above the <strong>Socialist Party<\/strong> (SP) between 28 and 29 percent. More detached is Chega&#8217;s far-right with\u00a017 to\u00a018 percent, with an exponential increase compared with\u00a02022 elections, when it registered 7.2 percent of the vote &#8211; and Liberal Initiative rising to 6 percent (from 4.9 two years ago). <strong>The Liberals are the primary interlocutor of the center-right bloc Democratic Alliance.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0The possibility of forming a stable government without involving far-right nationalists, however, will depend on the electoral performance of the two forces.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, the leader of the Social Democratic Party and candidate for the center-right bloc, <strong>Lu\u00eds Montenegro<\/strong>, has opposed any alliance with the ultra-nationalists. However, considering the\u00a0uncertainty of the outcome of the polls,<strong> the party President and Chega candidate, Andr\u00e9 Ventura, could become the needle in the balance<\/strong> for forming or supporting the next government in Portugal. In the 2022 elections, surveys\u00a0gave a neck-and-neck battle between the Socialists and the center-right. However,\u00a0at the polls, the incumbent premier\u00a0Costa won by 12 percentage points and then\u00a0gained\u00a0an absolute majority in Parliament. This time, however, one cannot underestimate the weight of the consequences of the investigation of alleged corruption related to some projects for the country&#8217;s green transition\u00a0&#8211; which also indirectly involved the resigning premier &#8211; on the hopes of the Socialist candidate (and party secretary), <strong>Pedro Nuno Santos<\/strong>, to limit the damage and reconfirm himself as the first political force in Portugal. <strong>Today, the Socialists control 120 out of 230 seats in the National Assembly<\/strong>, ruling without allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early elections on March 10, polls give the center-right bloc Democratic Alliance as the favorite, with the Socialist Party narrowly behind. But governing will require the support of another political force, on which the stability of the government will depend: spotlight on the Liberals and Chega&#8217;s far-right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5647,"featured_media":343523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[27175,27177,27176,27178,27179],"class_list":["post-343566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-antonio-costa-en","tag-elections-portugal-2024-en","tag-enough-en","tag-luis-montenegro-en","tag-portugal-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343566"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344803,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343566\/revisions\/344803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}