Portugal’s governance-centric democratic alliance has once again won the Snap parliamentary election (third over the years) to have not reached a majority.
Its leader, Louis Montenegro, has pledged to “stimulate investment” to supporters, and to “guaranteed prosperity and social justice.”
Socialist leader Pedro Nuno Santos announced his resignation after his party finished second, losing so many seats that he was necked and headed with the relatively new far-right Chega.
Socialists can even slip behind Chega if it’s the result of foreign voters.
Chega leader Andre Ventura said the “historical” results marked the end of Portuguese’s two-party rule.
His campaign focuses on issues of immigration and corruption, and Chega was probably helped by the fact that this election and the previous election were caused by a scandal involving the Prime Minister that day.
Montenegro thanked both his family and his “political family” for his remarks to his supporters, defending him from attacks related to transactions made by the company he set up before he became leader, and is now owned by his sons.
This was a controversy that sparked elections after the government lost its vote of confidence.
Meanwhile, Santos reiterated his view in his own farewell comment that Montenegro is not worthy of prime minister, suggesting that the Socialist Party should not drop the issue.
