Passos Coelho wants new elections as centre-right go on the attack
In the latest twist in the death-throes of the PSD-CDS coalition government, outgoing PM Pedro Passos Coelho is demanding new elections and the rapid constitutional rewrite that these would entail.
Government outnumbered as Portugal votes with its feet
After last Sunday’s “Alice in Wonderland” election reports, the truth has finally settled. The centre-right wing crowing of “clear victory” is in fact a hung parliament that would almost certainly
“Record abstention” forecast for Sunday’s neck-and-neck elections
With the race for power still so much “up in the air” in the last three days before the elections, Bloomberg Business is forecasting “one of the lowest turnouts since
Elections: six days to go and “it’s anyone’s guess”
Six days to go till Portugal goes to the polls and it is still “anyone’s guess” as to who will be in power on Monday morning. With daily polls suggesting
Matches on Election Day are “inevitable”, says football league
Pedro Proença, the president of Portugal’s Professional Football League (LPFP), has explained that the decision to schedule three major football matches on Election Day, October 4, was inevitable as the
Candidates go head to head
As election campaigns go, Portugal’s have this far been an unmitigated disaster. From the minute the “Maratona Portugal à Frente” (‘Portugal First’ Marathon) took to the streets in Braga, national
“Troika lenders” give up on Portuguese reforms before elections
They came, they saw… and they left “without the feeling of mission accomplished”. Troika lenders have had to accept that Portugal’s coalition government will not be doing anything more in
Ex-union leader to run for president
Manuel Carvalho da Silva, the former secretary general of workers union CGTP, has admitted in a recent interview that he is planning to run for president in Portugal’s upcoming elections
Portugal’s coalition “deadpan” over Greek election results
Carefully measuring their words, Portugal’s PSD and CDS coalition parties have been the first to comment on the Greek election victory of the anti-austerity Syriza party – making sure to
Portugal’s bosses “want early elections”
As political commentators highlight stress fractures in the coalition – and daily ‘budget shocks’ are rolled out by the nation’s press – Portugal’s bosses are calling for early elections. They