Elections

CHEGA is set to become Portugal’s main opposition party By Michael Bruxo – The Portugal Resident Votes are still being counted, but the Socialist Party (PS) is already conceding defeat. [...]

Portugal went to the polls yesterday (Sunday, May 18) with the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) winning the general election with 32.72% (1.9 million) of the vote, securing 89 MPs in [...]

The Canadian ratings agency DBRS has weighed in on Sunday’s election results by saying that the Democratic Alliance (AD) win gives more force to continued sound economic and budgetary policies [...]

The gulf between Portugal’s two main political forces has never been so wide according to a latest poll from Pitagórica for Jornal de Notícias/TSF and TVI/CNN. It shows that the Aliança [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photo: Fernando Bento The former chief of staff of the Portuguese Navy, who looks likely to put himself forward as a candidate in the presidential elections in 2026, has [...]

Portugal is to go to the ballot boxes on May 18 after a political crisis failed to be resolved this week in the country’s Parliament. The Government fell on Wednesday and the President of [...]

Portugal will have to go to the ballot boxes in May – the third time in just over three years – after its centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) government fell on Tuesday after a [...]

The Portuguese are facing the prospect of a snap election in May in what would be a third election since 2022 over an alleged conflict of interest involving its Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro [...]

The Governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno has not ruled out running for the presidency of Portugal in January, 2026. In an interview with celebrity CNN business journalist, Richard [...]

An interesting reflection on the reasons behind the rise of the far right and populist political parties in Europe was delivered to the members of the International Club of Portugal (ICPT) by [...]