Portuguese voters' anger and what it means for Europe

EU Confidential

POLITICO

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4.4 • 175 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Portugal's snap election has brought seismic change — the Socialists are now in opposition and the center-right Democratic Alliance, which narrowly won the vote, will try to form a minority government. But the biggest shock came when the far-right, ultra-nationalist, anti-immigrant Chega won more than a million votes and became the third-largest party in parliament. In this episode of EU Confidential, host Sarah Wheaton is joined by POLITICO’s Aitor Hernández-Morales, Barbara Moens and Nicholas Vinocur to break down the results of the vote and discuss what the far-right surge in Portugal could mean for the future of the EU — with the European elections on the horizon and the race for top jobs underway. Later, POLITICO's Stuart Lau interviews Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson after his country officially joined NATO. Further readings: Ursula von der Leyen’s reelection campaign gets off to a bumpy start – POLITICO Portugal’s far right comes roaring back – POLITICO Portugal swings right in knife-edge snap election – POLITICO Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	forward slash express. These are voters who are just mad. They hate what their lives are. They're
0:34.6	furious. They're absolutely furious. That was the rapid analysis of the Portuguese election results from Politico's own
0:42.3	Eitor Hernandez Morales. He's been reporting from Lisbon, where voters made clear they want
0:48.3	new leadership after corruption allegations hit the government of Prime Minister Antonio Costa. Technically, the center-right Democratic Alliance narrowly won the snap election.
1:00.0	But as the results were announced last Sunday, there was someone else claiming victory.
1:05.0	If only symbolically.
1:08.0	Chega, it also,
1:10.0	historically, a million of votes in Portugal. if only symbolically. Chega ultra-passed historically
1:10.8	a million of votes
1:12.7	in Portugal.
1:14.1	One million.
1:15.6	As you can hear,
1:17.1	far-right leader
1:17.8	Andre Ventura was very impressed.
1:21.1	His party is called Chega,
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