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Portugal: President calls on Socialist leader to form government

by Our Foreign Desk

PORTUGAL’S anti-austerity left coalition won a victory for democracy yesterday after the president asked leader Antonio Costa to assemble a new government.

President Anibal Cavaco Silva announced on his website that he was inviting Socialist Party (PS) leader Mr Costa to form a government.

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