After the results had already been determined, the PS lost almost half of the parliamentary group. Conversely, Chega more than doubled his votes and mandates. Livre forms a parliamentary group and the CDS-PP returned to parliament.
In Porto, AD won by a tenth, equivalent to 1,012 votes. For the first time since 1991, a party that is not the two largest won the constituency: Chega in Faro.
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Social Democratic Party (PSD) Secretary General Hugo Soares noted “one of the worst results in the history of the left.” In line with Luis Montenegro’s position, Vice President Paulo Rangel believes that “whoever wins should form the government” and that the previous chief executive is “rotten”.
Former Social Democratic president Luis Márquez Méndez looked at Cega’s result from a right-wing perspective and compared it “to what happened with the Democratic Renewal Party and the Socialist Party” in 1985. “Minority government is both a problem for the government and for the opposition. The government must be competent and have greater initiative before the first budget,” he stressed.
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Outgoing Prime Minister António Costa acknowledged this Sunday a “very significant drop” in votes for the Socialists, but does not see “a big increase in AD” compared to 2022. As for the possibility of the PS making the right-wing party Government viable, not if it wanted to “intervene” in the decision-making sphere of Secretary General Pedro Nuno Santos.
“There is a very strong upswing in Chega. It is important to analyze what is structural and what can be seen due to the atypical situation in which the elections were held,” namely the “judicial doubts” raised by Operation Influential Man, he also emphasized.
According to socialist João Torres, “a new cycle is beginning in the PS.” The party “will not create constitutional deadlocks” for the AD government, but is not committed to approving the first budget. According to Ana Catarina Mendes, the PS “must put up a very strong resistance to what is coming, because nothing good is expected from what is coming.”
Former Lisbon mayor Fernando Medina lamented the rise of Chega, “with the ability to influence the moderate right”, but argues: “The worst thing we could do was to create a central bloc of any type, formal or informal.” The holder of the foreign affairs portfolio in the last governing body, João Gomes Craviño, expressed “deep concern about the minority government in the current circumstances of the international context.”
The historical socialist Manuel Alegre hastened to admit defeat. “The PS must prepare to be in opposition. (…) It was the natural wear and tear of eight years of rule and two difficult years with inflation and war,” he noted. Without blaming Pedro Nuno Santos, Manuel Alegre continues to support the secretary general.
Sergio Sousa Pinto, on the contrary, devalued AD’s victory. “The SDP was practically forced out of the south. Chega benefited from the electorate that voted for the PS in the last elections. Blood pressure is not rising. This is a modest, almost marginal victory. The SDP would have lost the elections without the SDS. “PP,” he said.
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Elected MP Pedro Pinto highlighted the “historic cry of rebellion” of the Portuguese caused by the “great, great result” of Chega. “We have already achieved one thing: the left is not winning in Portugal,” he congratulated himself.
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