Clear legal pressure after parliamentary election in Portugal – Diepresse.com
Lisbon/ Madrid. In the early parliamentary election in Portugal, the previous conservative Premier Luís Montenegro with his center-right coalition Aliança Democrática (AD) got a clear victory on Sunday. According to partial results, his conservative multi -party alliance won approximately 36 percent of the vote.
With this result, the conservatives missed the absolute majority, but were able to significantly expand their power in Portugal. The 52-year-old Montenegro therefore has a good chance of becoming a premier again. The new election became necessary after Montenegro and his minority government, which was only one year old, had lost a vote of trust after allegations of corruption.
The Conservative Alliance also celebrates: the right -wing populist party Chega became the second strongest force according to the preliminary results. With this, Chega overtook the Socialist Party (PS), which had to accept bitter losses with around 22 percent.
Chega chairman André Ventura, who last had to pause in the election campaign due to health problems, conjured up the « fight against corruption and illegal migration ». Ventura would like to rule with the conservative Allianz ad, but its chairman Montenegro has so far refused cooperation.
In the fourth place, the Iniciativa Liberal (IL) positioned itself with about four percent, which is considered the possible small coalition partner of the conservative AD. His economic -liberal party offers fresh solutions – « like the best sardines on the market ». In the election campaign, a lot of Montenegro’s interest collision revolved around Montenegros.
The premier once founded an advisory company that later passed his family – and continued to receive contracts from companies that also applied to state concessions in the gambling area, for example. The opposition accused Montenegro of mixing politics and business interests.
Hot topic migration
Migration policy was also a hot topic in the election campaign: Chega made migrants a scapegoat for the country’s burning problems – the severe housing crisis and the overload of the health system.
Montenegro had announced a tightening of foreign policy in the election campaign: Around 18,000 irregular immigrants are to be reported in the next few weeks.
