Right -wing populist Chega wins at Luxembourg’s Portuguese
The right -wing populists in Portugal are expanding their role and are now alone the greatest opposition force in parliament. Around a week and a half after the early parliamentary election, the CHEGA party receives two more mandates after counting the foreign votes and is now coming to a total of 60 seats in the Lisbon Asseman Assemble da República, as the national electoral authority announced.
So far, Chega (« it is enough ») and the Socialist Party (PS), each with 58 MPs, had been in second place. The PS could not improve by counting the foreign votes. The two remaining seats went to the conservative alliance of Democratic Alliance (AD) of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro.
Chega was chosen the most in Luxembourg
The party of André Ventura was most frequently chosen by the Portuguese emigrants in Luxembourg in this year’s parliamentary elections.
After the counting of the voice in the consulate of the Grand Duchy, Chega won 31.27 percent (4,133 votes). In second place was the AD – the coalition of PSD and CDs – with 17.80 percent (2,353 votes) and third place the PS with 11.71 percent (1,548 votes).
What accelerated the rise of the right -wing populists in Portugal
In Luxembourg, 36,093 Portuguese citizens were entered in the electoral register and 13,218 (37.01 percent) emitted their vote, as can be seen from the data of the website of the Interior Ministry.
Of the total number of votes cast in the Grand Duchy, 30.59 percent (4,044 votes) were invalid and 0.85 percent (112) were empty.
Chega and AD add in Luxembourg
In the 2024 parliamentary elections, the Chega was among the third strongest under the Portuguese emigrants in Luxembourg to the strongest political force, a position that it also retained in this year’s elections. In 2024 she received 2,676 votes (19.61 percent) and 4,133 votes (31.27 percent) in 2025, according to the government authority.
In Portugal, the voices of the emigrants are decisive
The AD also increased: it received 405 votes (14.27 percent) more than in the 2024 parliamentary elections and rose from 1,948 to 2,353 votes (17.80 percent). The PS, on the other hand, lost 222 votes compared to the last parliamentary elections: in 2024 it received 1,770 votes and in 2025 1,548 votes.
This article first appeared at “Contacto « . Translation using AI and processing by Thomas Berthol. (with dpa)
