Exit polls indicate the center-left Socialist Party collected the most votes in Portugal’s general election, leaving it poised to continue in government for another four years. But it may need to build alliances to pass legislation.
Portuguese Prime Minister and Socialist Party leader Antonio Costa picks up his ballot paper to vote at a poll station in Lisbon Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019. Portugal is holding a general election Sunday in which voters will choose members of the next Portuguese parliament.
That could mean they have to pursue alliances with other left-of-center parties, as they did in their last term with the Portuguese Communist Party and the radical Left Bloc, to pass legislation. Now his government is set to reap the rewards of an economic rebound in recent years. Growth climbed from 0.2% in 2014 to 2.1% in 2018, and unemployment dropped by around half, to 6%, over that period.
Smaller, fringe parties may also gain a handful of seats in the 230-seat Republican Assembly, the country’s parliament, which will elect the next government. The country’s president is mostly a figurehead.
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