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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The incumbent center-right Democratic Alliance won a general election in Portugal on Sunday, but it failed to secure a majority in Parliament and was set to take office as a minority government for the second time in a year.
Portugal’s third general election in three years dashed hopes that the ballot could end the worst spell of political instability for decades in the European Union country of 10.6 million people.
Any Portuguese here who can shed some more nuanced light on the political situation? Are the left-wing parties there really that out of touch/ineffectual, or is there something else going on?
We come from many years of Socialist Party rule, and the pendulum has now swang to the other side.
After 50 years of democracy young people no longer have any idea what it was like to live under the fascist dictatorship, they don’t have any idea of the huge leap in quality of life that these last 50 years brought us, and they have been made to think by propaganda that the whole system is rotten and that we’ve never been worse. That revolt vote that in my youth went to far left parties that talked about decriminalizing drugs and abortion, now goes to far right parties that blame gipsies and immigrants for all perceived problems (many of them not even factually existing).
In one or two more years the far right will inevitably reach government, and we’ll be a little Hungary by the sea.
Same as it ever was :'(
Also, “swang” is an excellent verb for the political pendulum’s movement.
Societal tendency to just forget bad shit after the generation the bad shit happened to mostly dies off is… a consistently problematic and frustrating trend through modern history