Election result - coalition win for Pedro Passos Coelho

The ruling coalition will win today’s general election but without an absolute majority.

The first counts are in and the projections give a clear victory to the Pedro Passos Coelho/ Paulo Portas (PSD/CDS-PP) coalition in Sunday’s 2015 election.

António Costa’s Socialist party came a close second but pundits are taken aback at the large rise in the number of votes for the Left Bloc which for the first time has more support than the CDU, a coalition between the Communist party and the Greens.

Projections put the ruling coalition with 36.4% to 40.2% of the vote according to exit surveys conducted by Eurosondagem.

Thus, PSD and CDS coalition should have a maximum of 108 MPs, which does not give them a majority.

The Socialist party will get between between 29.5% and 33.1% of the vote with the Left Bloc rising to become the third most voted for political party with 16-19 MPs.

The Algarve's MPs are as follows, with a special congratulations to João Vasconcelos, tirelss anti-tolls campaigner and Portimao councillor.

José Apolinário
PS
José Carlos Barros
PAF
António Eusébio
PS
João Vasconcelos
BE
Cristóvão Norte
PAF
Jamila Madeira
PS
Paulo Sá
CDU
Luís Graça
PS
Teresa Caeiro
PAF

For a full national list, see:

http://www.jn.pt/multimedia/infografia.aspx?content_id=4816336

Comments  

+1 #5 dw 2015-10-07 00:39

Having a government elected with a 'mandate' on just 36.1% of the vote is the British way, apparently. Less than a quarter of the electorate and they call it democracy.

+5 #4 Enid 2015-10-05 13:55

Amongst all the other striking differences with countries like the UK is that there is no such concept as 'local MP'. Sometimes one is local to an area but with the list system the MP allocated to an area may have no connection at all to or interest in it.

So do nothing at all to help out ordinary citizens within it. Yet cannot be de-selected for incompetence as they are 'high on the list'. Automatically re-elected due to that parties share of the overall national vote. So being bomb proof not ideal to a Brits way of thinking.

+9 #3 Eve 2015-10-05 10:57

"by the way how do you contact your local mp???"

"João Vasconcelos, tirelss anti-tolls campaigner and Portimao councillor"
you can join him in the next demonstration!

+7 #2 Roger Talbot 2015-10-05 08:14

As other commenters have often pointed out. The continuing failures in developing their economy are entirely of Portugal's making.

And Portugal still does not have anything resembling a developed society with a substantial middle class as an anchor on the lower and upper classes. That would welcome the increased choice that comes from competition. Therefore what passes for politics here is still largely tribalism.

And tribalism is sustained by corruption. The assumption that 'that booger from another tribe has his hand out for a bung so, on behalf of my family, I must too'. It is striking that no political party has filed accounts over the years or been asked to. No detailed explanations about the money coming in and that going out. Yet none see any problem with running the country likewise.

Then bundle in the ever present, still looming shadow of Salazar and his secret police murderers, Fascism, thousands still missing beloved ancestors - mysteriously disappeared during the Purges - and we realise that Portugal remains a total no-hoper in the European Union.

+7 #1 mm 2015-10-05 07:46

wow I never realized that we have mps, don't suppose we will hear much from them until the next election, as affairs of state will keep them busy in Lisbon

by the way how do you contact your local mp???

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