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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.
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
