The far rights in Portugal reshaped the balance of forces from the end of the dictatorship
With just under 33% of the vote, the conservative AD AD of Prime Minister Luis Montenegro may seem to be the winner of the election in Portugal on Sunday – third since 2022 – but media in the country and Europe have outlined another actual winner.
The far-right « joke » (also « joke! »; Its name means « enough ») still has a chance to be the main opposition party, while the socialists who received the second best result hoped to retain this role.
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For comparison, in 2019, the party entered parliament with 1 MP (230) and put an end to the Portuguese exception from the far right. Since then, the Portuguese have voted three times: in 2022, a joke took 12 seats, in 2024 – 50. Now with its 58 seats it will have a parliamentary group as much as that of the Socialists. And he took only about 50,000 votes less of them, thus gone to get the second best result.
Left -wing
The results are not final: on May 28, the exact data will be known about how the votes of 1.5 million Portuguese abroad, who choose only four MPs (two of the mandates come from European countries). But Portugal is already different: a party has never celebrated such a fast rise in the country.
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We did what no other party has achieved in Portugal. Today, we can safely say to the whole country that the two -party regime in Portugal is over. Nothing will be like before.
Andre Ventura. The leader of a « joke »
« Humiliated over the past 50 years »
The leader of the joke, Andret Ventura, turned to the people who felt « humiliated in those 50 years » (after the fall of dictatorship). The party’s triumph became possible with an unexpectedly higher (than in 2024) activity: 64.3%, compared to 59.8 last March.
- The division outlines her victory is not only geographical (eg with the South); the Polígrafo platform notesthat the result of « joke » is the lowest in the 11 municipalities, in which more than half of the residents are university graduates.
- Another data project, Pordata, sochythat Ventura’s project won nearly 30% of the vote in the Azores municipality, where the highest share of people who fail to complete their secondary education was reported in 2023.
- Last year, for the first time, such a success of « joke » in areas with the most increasing increase in migrants was noted as a ratio to the local population.
