Portuguese go to the polls on Sunday to renew Parliament, after more than eight years of rule by the Socialist Party. The country, which was among the dunces of the euro zone, posted a budget surplus last year and one of the most dynamic growths on the continent.
The socialists, led by former minister Pedro Nuno Santos, 46, are neck and neck with the centre-right party of Prime Minister Antonio Costa. The outgoing prime minister is not running again: he announced in November the resignation of his government.