The government of Montenegro represents the largest minority in the democracy. Left with second worst result

An AD government led by Luis Montenegro would be the largest minority in democracy, with 28.8% of the vote and the support of 80 MPs, with the left having the second lowest percentage since 1991.

Despite the fact that in the elections of March 10, all the right – the Democratic Alliance (SDS and CDU), Chega and the Liberal Initiative – received 52.5% of the votes and 138 deputies, an absolute majority, the appointed Prime Minister Luis Montenegro of the PSD abandoned the government agreement with Andre Ventura’s party, and a possible agreement with the liberals is still in doubt.

Thus, the government from the very beginning enjoys the support of 80 of the 230 deputies of the Assembly of the Republic, being forced to negotiate with the rest of the composition to pass laws. The right, AD and IL (without Chegi), have 88 deputies, less than all the left in parliament.

The leftists collectively received 38.4% of the votes and 91 deputies.

The total vote for left-wing parliamentary parties has never fallen below 37.9% (in 1987) in the 18 general elections held since 25 April 1974, while the right had its worst result in 1975, at 34 %.

In elections in democratic Portugal, including the Constituent Assembly elections in 1975, the left won a higher percentage of the vote 12 times, while the right only six times. The PS formed government 10 of the 12 times the left came to the fore, with the PSD governing seven, two of them with an opposing majority: the first AD government in 1979 and Cavaco Silva’s first victory, in 1985. Now the government of Luis Montenegro is joining him.

The worst percentage result of the sum of left parties represented in parliament was recorded in the 1991 legislative elections, in which Cavaco Silva’s PSD won a second absolute majority, an election in which General Ramalho Inés’s PRD disappeared from the Assembly of the Republic. after reaching 18% in 1985.

The right had its worst showing in the first elections after the dictatorship for the Constituent Assembly in 1975, when it received 34%. And the biggest legislative defeat occurred in 2019: the percentages of the NDP-NSD, SDS-NP, Chegi and IL amounted to a total of 34.6% and 86 deputies. Rui Rio’s PSD reached 27.8%, Assunção Cristas’ CDS-PP recorded 4.2%, and Andre Ventura’s Chega and Carlos Guimarães Pinto’s IL each received 1.3%.

PS António Costa won the 2019 elections with 36.3%, continuing to govern with the parliamentary support of the PCP and PEV (6.3% and 12 deputies) but without the support of the BE (9.5% and 19 deputies). In this vote, Livre de Rui Tavares gained 1.1% and one deputy.

The left’s biggest electoral defeat – 37.9% – occurred in 1991, when Cavaco Silva’s PSD won a second absolute majority – 50.6% and 135 deputies.

In these elections, the sum of the right-wing parties, including Manuel Sergio’s PSN (the so-called retired party), reached 56.7% and 141 deputies. The PS was led by Jorge Sampaio, who would become President of the Republic for 10 years, the PCP-PEV coalition – the historical communist leader Alvaro Cunhal and the PSR, which gained 1.1%, but did not elect a single deputy. for Francisco Luzana.