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The very EU Coups
An anti-austerity majority in Portugal was blocked from power by fearful elites. It’s nothing new in the EU, writes BRIAN DENNY
THE European Union has a familiar draconian response to any democratic mandate which it doesn’t care for: ignore it and then move Heaven and Earth to nullify it.
The latest flare-up in the long-running anti-democratic saga known as the “European project” is unfolding in Portugal, where the anti-austerity left has won a working electorial majority.
When the ruling pro-EU austerity conservative cabal in Lisbon lost the general election in October, the social democrats Partido Socialista (PS) sought to form a government with left-wing alliances Left Block (BE) and the Communist-led Democratic Unity Coalition (CDU).
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