Storm clouds stacked over PS Socialists’ next four years
Sunday saw PS Socialists ‘swept back to power’ in one of the most unconvincing election results since Portugal became a democracy. Huge swathes of the country couldn’t be bothered to
Sunday elections: study shows 50% of Portuguese ‘don’t trust any of the party leaders’
A study ahead of the elections in two days time shows that only one out of two people in the street “trust” the line-up of party leaders. Put another way
October 6: election victory in sight for Socialists
No big surprises expected in Sunday’s national legislative election, but it will confirm Portugal’s political stability compared to the bitter divisions in other European countries, especially the United Kingdom. Victory
“Distrust” main reason why most Portuguese did not vote in European elections
Portuguese citizens are “generally unsatisfied with and distrustful of Portuguese politics”. This was the main reason why nearly 70% of the country did not vote in the latest European elections,
The ins and outs of October’s local elections
Portugal’s local municipal elections will be taking place in just eight months’ time and thousands of foreigners may be eligible to vote without being aware of it. For the ins
Presidential candidates on tour as election countdown begins
This week sees the 10 people vying to fill Cavaco Silva’s shoes out in force throughout the country and its island communities, drumming up support for the first round of
Presidential race gets airtime as “favourite” Marcelo is blamed for many of Portugal’s ills
The presidential race is well and truly on with the 10 candidates in the running to fill Cavaco’s “shoes” throwing mud at each other in shovel-loads. Last night, on SIC
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