In Portugal, the radical-right party Chega is nevertheless second thanks to votes from abroad

The more than one and a half million votes from abroad have the election results in Portugal Ten days after the elections Still a bit shaken: not the Social Democratic Partido Socialista (PS), but the radical-right Chega has become the second largest party. The votes from abroad are good for four seats in the 230 seat Portuguese parliament. Two seats are based on voices from Europe, two other places are determined by voices from the rest of the world.

The radical-right Chega won in both categories and gets two seats, enough to strive PS by. After the elections on Sunday, May 18, both parties end at 58 seats, although PS received 48,812 votes more. The two extra seats for Chega were partly acquired with voices from countries such as France, Belgium and the United Kingdom, where PS did well in earlier elections. They are driving PS for the first time in Portuguese political history to third place. That is a blow to the Social Democratic Party, which in recent decades varied as a government party or opposition leader.

The other two seats from abroad are the largest party in Portugal for the center -right Aliança Democrática (AD) by Prime Minister Luís Montenegro. Ad is therefore 91 seats. Although Chega previously claimed to be the big winner of the elections and announced that the era of traditional two -party policy is over, the chance seems little that Chega will rule. Prime Minister Montenegro has said several times that he did not want to drive the radical-right party because he does not find the party reliable.

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