Elections in Portugal last October returned a parliament narrowly divided between the incumbent center-right coalition Portugal Ahead, composed of the conservative People’s Party and the centrist Social Democratic Party, and a new center-left and left-wing majority divided between four parties: the Socialist Party with 32 percent of the vote, the Communist Party with 8 percent, the Left Bloc at 10 percent and the Greens with 1 percent.
After the conservatives failed to gain sufficient support in parliament to form a government, conservative President Aníval Cavaco Silva, a member of the Social Democratic Party, was forced under the terms of the constitution to offer the Socialist Party an opportunity to form a government. As SocialistW…
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