Portugal, centre-right chief Montenegro prime minister. He will lead a minority authorities | EUROtoday

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The president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has invited the chief of the center-right Democratic Alliance social gathering Luis Montenegro, winner of the final elections, to type the federal government. The CEO, who didn’t attain an absolute majority, stated she was prepared to manipulate alone with a minority govt, rejecting the help of the far-right Chega social gathering which quadrupled its help within the final elections. At this level Montenegro will want the help of the socialists to achieve the votes wanted to manipulate.

Irritual and controversial, in line with many observers, Rebelo de Sousa's choice to begin the consultations earlier than realizing the definitive results of the vote with the counting of the votes of the 350 thousand registered within the lists of the 2 constituencies overseas, which arrived yesterday and to verify the task in Montenegro already after midnight, however for the president it was necessary that Montenegro already participated as prime minister in command of the pre-summit by the European People's Party, scheduled for in the present day in Brussels. He now has the troublesome process of discovering a stable majority or managing to manipulate in a minority, given the acute fragmentation of the chamber and the refusal of the vast majority of conservatives to co-opt the far proper into their authorities. The percentages and variety of definitive seats present that Ad obtains 28.9% of the preferences and 80 seats, far under the 116 that assure absolutely the majority. The PS has 28.1% and 78 seats, whereas Chega has 18% and 50 seats.