The conservative Democratic Alliance coalition (AD, center-right)
leads with 33%
of the votes in the legislative elections this Sunday in Portugal, after 50% of the count has been completed.
Behind, with 28.75%, is the Socialist Party (PS), and
as the third force appears the far-right Chega, with 19.23% of the support
, according to data from the Ministry of Internal Administration (of the Interior).
They are followed by the Left Bloc (2.99%), Liberal Initiative (2.97%) and the alliance of communists and environmentalists CDU (2.38%).
These preliminary results indicate a shift in the country to the right
, after more than eight years of government by socialist Prime Minister António Costa.
In addition,
they reveal a great advance by the extreme right
, which in the 2022 legislative elections won 12 seats with 7.18% of the votes.
Some 10.8 million voters were called to the polls this Sunday in Portugal, in elections where the favorite candidates to become prime minister are the socialist Pedro Nuno Santos and the conservative Luís Montenegro (AD).
These early elections come just over two years after the previous ones because Costa's third term was cut short in half due to his resignation last November, after the prosecutor's office announced that it was investigating him for alleged irregularities, although the Ministry Public has barely released information and there is no formal accusation against him.
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