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
Barroso out of Portugal’s upcoming presidential elections
He had already guaranteed it, but now it is official – José Manuel Durão Barroso will not be running for president in Portugal’s upcoming presidential elections in 2016. The European
Government under fire after “disastrous” election results
The ruling PSD/ CDS parties couldn’t even scrape 30% of the country’s vote and pundits say the results “raise serious questions over whether the Executive can continue on the same
A vote for change
In a clear ‘vote of protest’ by the nation against the Social Democrat-led government, results showed that the PSD party had lost a large number of town halls to the