So close, so far. Four or five years ago, Portugal was presented as immune to the far right. On Sunday, March 10, the results of the early legislative elections presented a categorical denial of this “European exception.” The young populist far-right party Chiga (“Enough” in Portuguese), launched in 2019, gained 16% of voting intentions in recent days, eventually receiving 18%.
By obtaining 29.49% of the votes, the Democratic Alliance (AD), a center-right party, finally won these elections. The Democratic Alliance is narrowly ahead of the Socialist Party, which has ruled the country for eight years, and which received 28.66% of the votes. This is much lower than his result in the previous legislative elections in January 2022, which he won by obtaining an absolute majority (41.4%).
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