Lisbon. Challenging all probabilities, Portugal’s centrifugal Socialists won an absolute parliamentary majority in early general elections, securing a new mandate solid for Prime Minister Antonio Costa, in power from 2015 and defending the bills.
The Socialist Party has 117 seats in the 230-member parliament, followed by 71 seats from the PSD center-right, along with the vacancies of a much more stressful constituency. Chega, of extreme derecha, surgió como la tercera fuerza parlamentaria.
The result, prompted by a superior participation in the hope of overcoming the coronavirus pandemic, is surprising given that the Socialists have lost the majority of their share in recent opinion polls, meaning that Portugal will have an unstable governing body to monitor the application of the European Union (EU) pandemic recovery funds.
The vote was called in November when the extremist Izquierda and the Allies of the Izquierda – Costa bloc unite to abolish the presumption of minority rule.
Extreme Izquierda parties pay the price, earning more from the middle of their screens, following the polls to the urn box.
“Absolute majority does not mean absolute power. It does not mean governing alone. It is a mayor’s responsibility and significant governing with and for all the Portuguese”, Costa proclaimed in his speech of Victoria.
Todavía stands to be recruited for part of the sufragios outside proceedings, with 99% being computerized, the PS habría logrado the 41.6% of the votes in front of 27.8% of the Social Democratic Party (PSD, conservator). A difference between 734,000 supporters, none of the polls of the last days predicted.
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Costa, which was forced to pay in 2015 during a debt crisis of 2011-14, has been facing a period of economic growth that has helped reduce the deficit deficit and include obtaining a superpower in 2019, before it can be curtailed. pandemic.
In Asia, Portugal is the largest country in Western Europe and depends on EU recovery pandemics.
The economist Filipe García, chief of consultants at the Financial Market Finance Office in Oporto, said that the inversionists were likely to appreciate Costa’s new mandate, giving the governor’s record of the deficit deficit.
“Moreover, the socialists do not need compromises (with other parties), which guarantee stability and a clear line of action. The mayor will be promoting the potential crime,” he said.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx