More than 80% of emigré votes ‘scrapped’ due to legal loophole
More than 80% of the votes cast by Portuguese citizens living abroad in last month’s legislative elections have ended up being scrapped. The reason stems from the electoral law that
Voting dismay: “Everything went well in Portugal, but elsewhere it was a disaster…”
Sunday’s elections missed out on thousands of potential votes from Portuguese citizens living abroad – some even in spite of a number of nationals doing ‘everything they possibly could’ to
Absolute majority! Portugal votes in four more years of Socialism
PS Socialists – particularly their leader prime minister António Costa – received the best election results they could have hoped for last night, taking the party into ‘historic’ new territory.
“Clear Socialist victory”: exit poll suggests PM Costa will be getting his way
Shouts of victory have already been heard through the halls of Lisbon’s Hotel Altis where PS Socialists are anxiously awaiting the results of today’s snap elections. All exit polls are
Jerónimo back in saddle as polls do ‘loop-the-loop’
Wednesday sees the race towards legislative elections on January 30 with only two more ‘campaign days’ to go – and news today is that PCP leader and ‘communist figurehead’ Jerónimo
Over a million in isolation as Portugal five days from election
Over a million people are in isolation as a result of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 as Portugal is just five days from legislative elections. The ‘plan’ is that this vast
PM open to new alliance with radical left; negotiations with centre-right … and minimum salary could go beyond €900
PM António Costa has started the final week of election campaigning on a new tack. He is open to an alliance with the radical left (which he has been blaming
Margin between PS and PSD narrows as insults fly
The margin between the two main parties in the race towards polling day is said to be narrowing, with PSD leader Rui Rio saying he believes the centre right have
Thousands of teachers leave profession: “salary doesn’t cover fuel costs”
The plight of Portugal’s teachers – on miserable salaries that “don’t cover fuel costs”, “don’t cover housing costs” and “make it impossible to start a family” – has seen thousands
PM closes doors on left-wing coalition, insisting on absolute majority
In another pre-election interview, Portugal’s prime minister António Costa has shown himself to be ‘reaching’ for what critics (and the polls) seem to think is impossible: an absolute majority. Talking