Centre-right narrowly wins Portuguese election as far right surges
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.
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