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Socialist Party supporters attend the announcement of the first electoral results at their party headquarters in Lisbon, March 10, 2024
PORTUGAL’S centre right has claimed a narrow election victory after a surge in support for the far right.
The Social Democrat-led Democratic Alliance won 79 seats in the 230-seat national assembly, while the centre-left Socialist Party (PS), in power for the past eight years, got 77 seats. Both polled about 29 per cent of the vote in a 66 per cent turnout.
But the far-right Chega (Enough) party secured 18 per cent of the vote, giving it 48 seats.
While Italy’s communist tradition remains fragmented and politically marginal, France’s party is attempting to re-establish itself as an independent force rooted in working-class organisation, says NICK WRIGHT
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
