You Portuguese will ballot box This Sunday (18) to elect the new parliament from Portugal, in its third election general in just over three years.
Voting occurs after the prime minister Luís Montenegro lost Parliament’s vote of confidence in March. This led President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to Dissolve Parliament and to summon the elections .
To the ballot box open 8h local time (4am in Brasília time) and close 19h (15h in Brasilia). You Preliminary Results are expected from 20h at local time (16h in Brasília time).
THE public frustration has increased by the repeated elections and the instability of governance, and analysts expect the electoral abstention Increase after a record of 6.47 million people voted by 2024.
Why the early elections?
THE prime minister Luís Montenegro was unable to achieve Parliament’s confidence in March, in a vote he himself proposed, after opposition questioning his integrity regarding negotiations with his family’s data protection consulting firm.
Montenegro, who leads the democratic alliance (Ad ), of center-right, denied any irregularity. Opinion polls show that their reputation remains practically intact to what the public considers an ethical issue without criminal implications.
What opinion polls show
THE Ad reached power after winning an election last year, with about 29% of the votes and 80 seats in a parliament of 230 places . Opinion polls show that the party is again in the leadership before the elections, but still probably far away of one majority effective.
The aggregator of research Radio Renaissance puts the Ad with just over 32% 10 percentage points below the support that would give him a majority full of 116 chairs.
You Socialist of the center left are in second place in research with 27% just below the 28% they had a year ago, followed by the Ultracereita Anti-Imigration Party He arrives with 17% And with little difference from the previous election, when he quadrupled his parliamentary representation.
THE Liberal initiative right -wing, fourth, is seen by many experts as an allied potential coalition for the Ad but it is around 6% In research, which would still leave the two parties short of the majority.
This content was originally published in elections in Portugal: see everything you need to know on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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