Socialist party win Portuguese Elections

With 36,56% of the votes Socialist Party win the Portuguese elections but, as it was predicted, without the parliament majority. The biggest opposition party, Social Democratic Party (PSD) had 29,09% of the votes and was declared by all the political analysts as the “big looser” of this elections.

 The biggest rise was Christian Democratic Party (CDS-PP) that went from 7,26% to 10,46% of the votes and elected 21 people against the 12 in 2005.

 The left wings parties (BE and PCP-PEV) also increased their votes but not enough to provide a majority colligation with PS.  

 From now on, if PS doesn’t colligate with another party (and only PSD or CDS-PP have enough power to do that), Socialist Party will have to negotiate with all the parties (namely with CDS-PP) everything the government wants to approve in the parliament.

 This can mean one of two things: More dialog with smaller parties or, hopefully not, political instability in Portugal for the next years.