Monday, October 5, 2015

Portugal's ruling party retains power

Portugal's centre-right Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, has been reelected in an election that was widely seen as a referendum on four years of austerity. 

Although Mr. Coelho is celebrating a victory, his coalition failed to win an absolute majority in the Portuguese parliament taking only 39 per cent of the vote.

Our correspondent Anna Brugmann reports:

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