Portugal 15/10/2015 Portugal's President to nominate Prime Minister after post-election talks break down Portugal’s caretaker prime minister says he expects the president to give the go-ahead to his centre-right coalition to form a new government. P
Portugal 05/10/2015 Passos Coelho wins re-election in Portugal, says ready to "compromise" It is a win, but not with an overall majority for the Portuguese centre-right, which looks set to win about 38.5% of the vote to the Socialists 32%
Portugal 05/10/2015 Austerity campaign pays off as Portugal's centre-right edges into new term Portugal’s centre-right coalition government under Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has won another four-year term. In what was seen as a test of
Portugal 04/10/2015 Conservative coalition on course for another win in Portuguese elections All signs are pointing to a second consecutive election win for Portugal’s conservative Portugal Ahead coalition. However, they seem likely to lose
Portugal 04/10/2015 Portugal parliamentary elections underway Portugal is voting in parliamentary elections today (October 4). Portuguese league football matches, which are not traditionally scheduled to take
Portugal 03/10/2015 Portugal set for Sunday's election Portugal is all set for Sunday’s general elections. The country’s prime minister Passos Coelho has made a final push to boost his chances of not only
Insight 02/10/2015 Portugal's silent revolt and desertion of the young The reputation of the Portuguese people as calm, or even submissive, in relation to the past few years of austerity has rarely wavered. Their anger
Portugal 02/10/2015 Portuguese elections: conservatives maintain narrow lead in polls Portugal is living through its closest election race since becoming a democracy in 1974. With the country gearing up for Sunday’s (October 4) general
Portugal 02/10/2015 Pedro Passo Coelho, premier who tightened Portuguese belts Pedro Passos Coelho returned the centre-right to power in Portugal in 2011, a neo-liberal economist. The Socialists had been governing for six years
Insight 02/10/2015 Fainthearted voters wary of Portuguese politics In Portugal’s legislative elections this Sunday, October 4th, more people than ever might just skip the ballot box. What’s more, pollsters say that
the-network 01/10/2015 Bailout ballot: Portuguese election stokes austerity debate The coming Portuguese general election raises themes of austerity, reform and growth that Europe has become all too familiar with in recent years
Portugal 01/10/2015 Voter apathy grips Portugal ahead of Sunday's general election Voters in Portugal look set to express their dissatisfaction with traditional politics by not voting in Sunday’s general election. In 2011 a record
Portugal 30/09/2015 Portugal's voters dare hope austerity will end What Laura Lavandeira buys at the fresh food markets in Porto has changed in the last several years, as her pension was reduced by around 500 euros
Insight 30/09/2015 Portugal's voters: expecting little, wanting more The polling forecast for Portugal’s October 4th elections is that the centre-right coalition now in power or the socialists will win. In the streets
Portugal 29/09/2015 What the Portuguese want from their next government Ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary election, we asked 10 people to summarise in one sentence what they wanted from the next Portuguese
Portugal 29/09/2015 Portuguese elections: when, how and what What is happening and when? The polls open on October 4 at 9:00 local time (11am CET) and close at 7pm on the mainland (9pm CET), when exit polls
Portugal 22/07/2015 Portuguese president announces general election Portuguese President, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, has announced that his country’s general election will take place on October 4, 2015. The ruling
