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Portuguese left pulls plug on government
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Nov 10, 2015 09:40pm |
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| Author | Ivo Oliveira |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 11, 2015 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho’s 11-day-old government collapsed Tuesday after the opposition Socialist leader teamed up with the Communists (PCP), Greens and Left Bloc (BE) to vote down the government program.
The conservative prime minister won the October 4 elections, but fell eight seats short of a parliamentary majority. Socialist António Costa came second but has managed to pull together a left-wing majority which is likely to form a new government in coming days.
Passos Coelho’s coalition, which won the admiration of many of Portugal’s eurozone partners including Germany by pushing through austerity measures following a €78 billion international bailout in 2011, goes down as the shortest-lived government since the country returned to democracy in 1974.
The outgoing premier said the left-wing coalition is a “negative majority only made to bring down the government. What drives the Socialist Party today is nothing but an appetite for power.”
Portugal’s head of state, President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, is now expected to ask Costa to form a government in the coming days. |
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