The extreme right breaks the two-party system in Portugal 50 years after the end of the dictatorship. The spectacular growth of Chega, which received more than a million votes, demonstrates the effectiveness of its leader, André Ventura, in mobilizing all discontents.
“This result is the reckoning of a country that for decades was suffocated, dominated, manipulated, atrophied by the left and the extreme left that dominated newsrooms, institutions and our economy,” Ventura said.