Portugal's center-left Socialist Party won a third straight general election Sunday, returning it to power
Portugal's Ruling Socialists Win Unexpected Outright Majority in Election
With 98.7% of votes counted, the Socialists had 41%, compared with 28% for their main rival, the center-right Social Democratic Party, which took at least 68 parliamentary seats. 18 seats remained to be allocated. “The mission is to turn the page on the pandemic and bring affected sectors back to life,” Costa said in a victory speech.
The past two Socialist administrations were minority governments. Since coming to power in 2015, the Socialist Party relied on the support of their smaller allies in parliament—the Left Bloc and the Portuguese Communist Party—to ensure the annual state budget had enough votes to pass. Some 10.8 million voters—1.5 million of them living abroad—were eligible to choose lawmakers in the Republican Assembly, Portugal’s parliament, where political parties then decide who forms a government.
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