Far right surges in Portugal as moderate conservatives win election

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The far right Chega Party-Right Democratic Alliance (AD) won the parliamentary elections in the parliamentary elections, which broke the Bi-Party dual of Portugal by waves of anti-immigrant attitude.

Andre Venchura, He has comeIts populist leader earned a record share of the vote, and on Monday, the number of elected lawmakers was neck and neck with the socialist party, resulting in the result of 226 of the 20 parliamentary seats.

The result means Portugal Western European countries join the list where far-right parties are the second largest political power or near it, including Germany, Sweden, Finland and Belgium. In the Netherlands, the far right team of Garter Wilders won an election in 2021.

“Today, we can confidently announce that the two-party system of Portugal is over” Ventura said that “Chega has become the second largest political party”.

However, the result is less likely to give him a taste of power. Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, a moderate conservative, refused to make any agreement with Chega.

Montenegro ads in a snap election as a result of conflict-self-interest against the Prime Minister The last vote 14 months beforeBut again, less than the parliamentary majority, which means he is probably likely to form another minority government.

Chega enthusiasts means that it will have more clouts and will press the ad to go right. Ventura, identified as Genophobe by opponents, announced in the campaign that “Portugal was flooded with illegal immigration and corruption”.

Ay Former trainee priest and football scholarVentura increased its team’s partnership from 5 percent to 22..6 percent in March 2021.

Administrative Advertising Voting increased by 3.4 percent points to 32.1 percent, it did not hit it by a sign Scandal on the MontenegroWhen he lost a vote of confidence because of his failure to divest a business part of a business part, whose government was broken.

Although the Socialist Party won a more part of the vote than Chega, its leader Pedro Nuno Santos has resigned, supervising its worst election performance since 77. The socialists were involved in the Ventura party in 5 parliamentary seats, and the ad won the 86.

The results of the four unidentified seats, whose selectors live in the Portuguese abroad, will not be known until the end of this week. In 2024, Chega won two of those seats and the socialists won one.

Has been driven by the rise of Chega founded in 2019 Public concern over immigration In 10 million countries where foreign-born population jumps to 15 percent, from 4 percent in 2017.

In an attempt to prevent the rise of Chega, the Government of Montenegro called it the “open doors” immigration policy of the previous socialist government and introduced a strict “controlled and humanitarian” method.

Marina Costa Lobo, director of Lisbon’s Institute of Social Sciences, said that Chega called for voters from the center-rights of the voters in 2022 and 2021, and this time it was well-known for the left-leaning.

“Socialists were able to hold a voters in 2021 that had less educated and less income. These groups of other European countries have tended to vote on the far right,” he said. “Now it seems that these voters can be transferred to a large number of cheeses.”

Montenegro was able to take responsibility last year because the Socialist Party refrained from the parliamentary vote about the formation of a government – he would need to do this again to secure a new term.

Socialist leader Santos said he would leave his successor to decide whether Montenegro would help stay in power.