Special envoy to Portugal
The Portuguese right is the favorite in this Sunday's legislative elections, but it is required to be cautious.
Because no poll gives an absolute majority to the Democratic Alliance (AD), the coalition of the large Social Democratic Party (PSD, center right), the smaller CDS (conservative right) and the confidential royalist party PPM.
On the left, the majority between the Socialist Party and its potential radical left allies also seems difficult to achieve.
The position of the far-right Chega (
“enough”
) party, promised to take third place, could be decisive.
Unless PS and PSD return to the national habit, broken by the left in 2015, of agreeing so that the party ranked second lets the first govern.
The game is still open.
The unknown does not prevent optimism.
Last week in Ourém, very close to the Fatima sanctuary, the head of the AD list said he was
“more motivated every day”
.
Luis Montenegro, a provincial lawyer…
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