Right arrives as a favorite to early legislative elections in Portugal

“Electoral remembrance was a risky decision, but with a calculated risk,” says the analyst, because “no one wanted these elections,” neither the socialist opposition, defeated in March 2024, nor the far right, third political force of the country.

According to data from a compilation of Radio Renascença research, Luis Montenegro’s AD (Democratic Alliance) has 32% of voting intentions, against 26.7% for Pedro Nuno Santos’s Socialist Party (PS), a 48 -year -old economist.

Negative coalition

The populist party and antisystem arrives, founded in 2019 by André Ventura, a 42-year-old former soccer funds, could get 17.9% of the votes, slightly below the result obtained last year.

During the election campaign that will end next Friday (16), Montenegro reaffirmed the refusal to govern with the support of the far right.

“Once again, the democratic alliance seems to not achieve its goal of obtaining an absolute majority,” summarizes analyst Corinne Deloy in a statement published by the Robert Schuman Foundation.