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Lisbon, Portugal – 15 May 2025
1. Various of Chega Party campaign billboard reading (Portuguese): “To save Portugal, vote Chega”
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Lisbon, Portugal – 14 May 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marina Costa Lobo, University of Lisbon’s Institute of Social Sciences director and coordinating researcher:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS IN SHOT 1 AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3-5++
“We have a dilemma which is, we have a majority of the electorate that votes on the right, the right holds 60% of the seats in Parliament, but in reality together the parties do not make up for a stable coalition because there is a ‘cordon sanitaire’ between Chega and PSD. So, the past elections that resulted in a majority on the right did not lead to a stable government. It was a minority government led by the PSD and due to a set of factors it fell.”
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Lisbon, Portugal – 15 May 2025
3. Various of campaign billboard for Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader and current Prime Minister Luis Montenegro
4. Various of Socialist Party campaign billboard showing leader Pedro Nuno Santos
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Lisbon, Portugal – 15 May 2025
5. Various of IL (Liberal Initiative party) campaign billboard
6. Left Bloc party campaign sign
7. Man reading newspaper
8. People playing cards on street
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Lisbon, Portugal – 14 May 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marina Costa Lobo, University of Lisbon’s Institute of Social Sciences director and coordinating researcher:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS IN SHOT 5 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOTS 6-8 AND 10++
“The reality is that the trajectory of the polls indicates that PSD is slightly ahead – PSD in coalition with the CDS party (People’s Party) that makes up the AD (Democratic Alliance coalition). What the polls indicate is that there will not be major differences from the last election results, it should be similar but AD is betting on an improvement of their results so that they can possibly achieve some kind of absolute majority with IL. If that does not happen there needs to be some post electoral agreement between the parties.”
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Lisbon, Portugal – 15 May 2025
10. Pan of Lisbon skyline
11. Portuguese Parliament facade, flag
STORYLINE:
Portugal is facing its third national elections in three years on Sunday, following the collapse of the center-right government of Luis Montenegro.
The election campaign has focused on domestic issues rather than foreign policy, with housing, healthcare and taxation key issues for voters, according to Marina Costa Lobo, director of the University of Lisbon’s Institute of Social Sciences.
"What the polls indicate is that there will not be major differences from the last election results," Costa Lobo told the Associated Press Wednesday.
The minority government of Montenegro lost a confidence vote in Parliament amid questions about the prime minister’s conduct.
Since then, Portugal has experienced the worst bout of political instability since it adopted a democratic system more than 50 years ago in the wake of the 1974 Carnation Revolution, which ended a four-decade dictatorship.
Portugal, which has a population of around 10.6 million people, has had a series of minority governments in recent years as the traditional rivals for power, the center-right Social Democratic Party and the center-left Socialists, lost votes to smaller parties.
The ballot deepens political uncertainty just as Portugal is in the process of investing more than 22 billion euros ($24 billion) in EU development funds.
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