Waving Portuguese flags, leaders of the far-right National Renovation Party (PNR...
LISBON - Waving Portuguese flags, leaders of the far-right National Renovation Party waited for more people to turn up at a mid-September rally in Lisbon, but their patriotic chants fell on deaf ears.
At a time when far-right populist movements are on the rise in most of Europe, such poor turnouts are the norm for their peers in Portugal, where the center-left Socialists are expected to stay in power. “People in Portugal have been socialized to a very multiethnic society, even compared to Spain,” said political scientist James Dennison, who researched far-right movements in Iberia.
“We need more immigration and we won’t tolerate any xenophobic rhetoric,” Prime Minister Antonio Costa told a conference last year.Portugal did not receive a sudden wave of migrants in recent years, such as the mass arrivals by sea in the Mediterranean coastal countries and by land in northern European countries such as Germany in 2016.
But Portuguese society is not devoid of racism, xenophobia or homophobia despite having gone through many liberal changes since the end of Antonio Salazar’s dictatorship.
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