Portuguese Ruling Alliance Goes First as Far-Right Runs Second
Luis Montenegro (R), leader of the Democratic Alliance (AD) coalition and president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Photo: EFE/EPA/MIGUEL A. LOPES
May 18, 2025 Hour: 5:22 pm
The Democratic Alliance (AD), of Portugal’s acting Prime Minister Luís Montenegro, is in the lead in the legislative elections in Portugal, with 33.40% of the votes and 55 seats, while the far-right force Chega is second, with 23.24% and 33 seats, with 95.15% of the votes counted.
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Despite having a lower percentage, the Socialist Party (PS), of Pedro Nuno Santos, with 23.12% of the votes, would have one more deputy than Chega (34); followed by Liberal Initiative (IL), with 4.8% and two seats.
The ecologist Livre has 3.36% of the votes; the Portuguese Communist Party, 2.75%, the Bloco de Esquerda, 1.82%; and the far-right ADN, 1.43%, but for the moment these votes do not translate into seats.
The regionalist Together for the People (in Portuguese: Juntos pelo Povo, JPP ) of Madeira enters Parliament for the first time with one seat and 0.43% of the votes.
More than 10.8 million voters inside and outside the country were called to the polls this Sunday, with 12,604 tables distributed throughout the national territory.
The elections were held after Montenegro’s Executive lost a vote of confidence in Parliament in March, due to the publication in the media of the existence of the company Spinumviva, owned by his family, which allegedly received payments from other companies in which the Prime Minister had previously worked.
The election day in Portugal passed normally and without significant incidents, according to the National Electoral Commission. The process proceeded smoothly and without major problems, despite an isolated complaint of an attack on a member of the Socialist Party by a voter from the ultra-right party Chega in Lisbon.
Source: EFE