Portugal’s center-right wins an election but surging populists want a say in the government

A center-right alliance led by the Social Democratic Party has won Portugal’s general election by a slender margin and is set to form a minority government that could have a difficult term in office as a radical-right populist party that came third in the voting tries to get a hand on the levers of power.

Results published late Wednesday after votes from abroad were counted to decide the last four lawmakers from the March 10 balloting gave the Democratic Alliance a final tally of 80 seats in the 230-seat National Assembly, Portugal’s parliament.

LibertyLizard,

Social democrats are considered center-right? Interesting.

atp2112,

Yeah, the name’s sort-of left over from the post-revolution era. They used to be social democrats, then moved pretty quickly to the right, especially after all the liberals gravitated towards it in the 80s

JimmyMcGill,

They are center right and in some cases not so center

Our “socialist party” is center left. Again the name isn’t 100% correct

LibertyLizard,

Just interesting how parties can migrate over time I guess. A little is not surprising but my understanding is that social democrats were originally born from the socialist movement so they had to cover a lot of ground to get all the way to center right.

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