Yesterday parliamentary elections were held in Portugal, with a technical tie between the two parties with the most votes and a big surprise.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, the Socialist Party<\/strong>, which currently governs that country, and the centrist coalition Alian\u00e7a Democratica<\/strong> (AD), formed by two Portuguese partners of the European People's Party (European Social Democrat and Social Democratic Center) and by the Christian Democrats of the Popular Monarchist Party, have been left in a technical tie<\/strong>. According to the official scrutiny<\/a>, the socialists obtain 77 seats and the centrists 79<\/strong> (the sum of the 76 of AD and another 3 obtained by a coalition of the PSD and the CDS).<\/p>\n The big surprise is the right-wing Chega! party, which obtains 48 seats<\/strong>, becoming the third force and holding the key to governability. Other parties have achieved much more modest results: Liberal Initiative<\/strong> (the Portuguese partners of the Spanish Citizens party) takes 8 seats, while the Trotskyist communists of the Bloco de Esquerda<\/strong> obtain 5, the communist coalition headed by the Portuguese Communist Party<\/strong> obtains 3, the socialists of Livre 4 and the environmentalists of the PAN one seat.<\/p>\n As happens with elections in other countries, many media outlets have once again assumed the ideological framework of the left<\/strong> to talk about these Portuguese parliamentary elections. This is clearly observed in one fact: the Chega! party is systematically labeled as \"extreme right\" or \"far-right\"<\/strong>, despite being a democratic party that defends its approaches through peaceful means, but in all the Spanish media that I have seen today, none speaks of \"extreme left\"<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Reading these media, some will think that the extreme left does not exist in Portugal. It isn't true. Both the Bloco<\/a> like the PCP<\/a> praised the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro<\/strong> after his death in 2016. The most scandalous case is that of the PCP<\/strong> , which has been showing its support for the communist dictatorships of Cuba<\/a>, Venezuela<\/a>, Nicaragua<\/a> and China<\/a>. But no media today talks about \"extreme left\" in Portugal, assuming the thesis that if you are from the left you don't even deserve to be classified as extremist even if you defend dictatorships<\/strong>. It is an aberrant thesis that makes it clear, once again, that some sell us as information what is actually activism and propaganda.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n
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