Election triggered by resignation of prime minister António Costa could see scandal-hit Socialist party ousted by rightwing coalition
Outgoing prime minister António Costa, right, raises the arm of Socialist party leader Pedro Nuno Santos at a rally in Lisbon on 5 March.Outgoing prime minister António Costa, right, raises the arm of Socialist party leader Pedro Nuno Santos at a rally in Lisbon on 5 March., a closely fought contest that is also expected to result in huge gains and a possible kingmaker role for the far-right Chega party.
Much will depend on Chega, the populist, far-right party founded five years ago by André Ventura, a former TV football pundit who was once a rising star in the PSD. After winning 1.3% of the vote in the 2019 elections and 7.
But he also stressed that many voters were still undecided and much remained uncertain, noting that “about one out of every five poll respondents claims to be undecided about what to do this Sunday, and even among those who declare a voting intention, a sizeable minority states they can still change”.
“The Socialist party had the best conditions to govern and they weren’t even able to organise themselves internally and you had junior and senior ministers quitting almost every month because of all sorts of scandals. And ultimately, you had the prime minister quitting.”
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