A center-right alliance led by the Social Democratic Party has won Portugal’s general election by a slender margin and is set to form a minority government that could have a difficult term in office as a radical-right populist party that came third in the voting tries to get a hand on the levers of power.

Results published late Wednesday after votes from abroad were counted to decide the last four lawmakers from the March 10 balloting gave the Democratic Alliance a final tally of 80 seats in the 230-seat National Assembly, Portugal’s parliament.

  • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    They are center right and in some cases not so center

    Our “socialist party” is center left. Again the name isn’t 100% correct

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      3 months ago

      Just interesting how parties can migrate over time I guess. A little is not surprising but my understanding is that social democrats were originally born from the socialist movement so they had to cover a lot of ground to get all the way to center right.