Red Dawn
Whilst Europe's political focus is on the Spanish referendum on the EU constitution, and Bush's visit there have been elections taking place in Portugal. The Socialist Party won power and the Left Bloc (Bloco Esquerda) took an impressive 6.38% of the vote winning 8 seats, an increase of 5. This follows on from the success of the Danish Red-Green Alliance who won 6 seats with 3.4% of the vote in the recent elections in Denmark. The RGA and Left Bloc have been involved with the European Anti-Capitalist Left group which also includes the Scottish Socialist Party and the LCR of France. It seems that the European left is on the advance once again.
2005 Results
PS: 2573302 (45,05%) 120 seats (+24)
PPD/PSD: 1638931 (28,69%) 72 seats (-32)
PCP-PEV: 432139 (7,57%) 14 seats (+2)
CDS-PP: 414855 (7,26%) 12 seats (-2)
B.E.: 364296 (6,38%) 8 seats (+5)
PCTP/MRPP: 47745 (0,84%) 0
PND: 39986 (0,70%) 0
PH: 16866 (0,30%) 0
PNR: 9365 (0,16%) 0
POUS: 5572 (0,10%) 0
PDA: 1604 (0,03%) 0
2002 results
Partido Social Democrata PSD 40.1% 105 seats
Partido Socialista PS 37.9% 96 seats
Partido Popular PP 8.8% 14 seats
Coligação Democrática Unitária CDU 7.0% 12 seats
Bloco do Esquerda BE 2.8 3 seats
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