After Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio was embroiled in a failure today (Wednesday) to pass the budget, the country in the Iberian Peninsula is expected to go to the snap elections soon.
Constantinople failed to persuade his allies on the left to give up some of their demands.
Kushta heads the Socialist Party, which has no majority in parliament, so he leans throughout his tenure on the populist leftist party and the Communists, but yesterday they dropped the budget for refusing to increase Social Security payments and investment in the health care system.
Costa clarified that Portugal should reduce spending so as not to jeopardize its credit rating.
Antonio was decorated.
Portugal on the run-up to the election, Photo: EPI
Following the "defection" of his opposition partners at the crucial moment, the 2022 budget fell and there seems to be no way out for the government.
Even before the vote, Portuguese President Marcelo Revello de Souza warned that he would be forced to dissolve parliament and force the country to go to the polls if they failed to pass a budget, thus effectively delaying the election by two years.