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Portugal’s ruling center-right Democratic Alliance (AD) won a snap parliamentary election on Sunday but again fell short of the majority needed to end a long period of instability as the far-right Chega gained a record share of the vote.
Portugal’s president has convened political parties for consultations after a general election delivered another minority government.
The recent elections in Portugal reveal a significant rise of the far-right Chega party, shaking the traditional political landscape dominated by the center-right and center-left parties. As the Democratic Alliance seeks to form a minority government,
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Portugal is headed for yet another minority government after the incumbent center-right Democratic Alliance won a general election but failed to secure a majority in Parliament in a vote that saw surge by a hard-right populist party.
In the decades after Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, many considered the country immunized from the far right. This has been challenged by the rise of Chega, the anti-immigrant party that won almost a quarter of the vote in Sunday’s election.