(19 May 2025)
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Lisbon – 19 May 2025
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5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marta Costa, 42, local resident:
"(I feel) Disappointment and sadness. I think it is very sad. We are losing the world and not building something decent for our children.”
Reporter (Portuguese): "What worries you the most?"
Marta Costa (Portuguese): “The rise of the far-right because I think we are not placing enough value on freedom and not focusing on what matters and we are playing up elections.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Emilia Gordo, 55, local resident:
“After so many years in government the people are tired, they want change. They (Chega) are trying everything to bring about a change, the country feels a need for change.”
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10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Henrique Bonifacio, 27, local resident:
“On the one hand I am surprised and at the same time I’m not. In recent elections there has been this far right rise let’s say. From my point of view, I feel worried about my future and even for other generations even younger than me that are now starting their lives, studying, and also for those people coming to our country to try to find better living conditions and opportunities.”
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12. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Matilde Marques, 24, local resident:
“I think it’s terrible. The worst scene possible. For Chega to be fighting for second place with the Socialists Party, it’s a total disaster. It troubles me deeply, as a woman, as a Portuguese. I think it is a danger for all of us that those people without any ideals are represented in parliament.”
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STORYLINE:
Resident in Lisbon reacted with shock and disappointment on Monday after the country’s general election delivered another minority government as well as an unprecedented showing by populist party Chega (Enough) that added momentum to Europe’s shift to the far-right.
The centre-right Democratic Alliance, led by the Social Democratic Party, captured 89 seats in the 230-seat National Assembly to win Sunday’s ballot.
The outcome leaves it without a parliamentary majority, however, and vulnerable to opposition parties that ousted it two months ago in a confidence vote after less than a year in power.
Portugal’s third general election in three years provided little hope for ending the worst spell of political instability for decades in the European Union country of 10.6 million people.
Lisbon local, Marta Costa, said she felt " disappointment and sadness" following the election results.
"I think it is very sad. We are losing the world and not building something decent for our children," she said, adding that the increase in support for the populist Chega party and the rise of the far-right in Europe was worrying her the most.
“I think we are not placing enough value on freedom.”
Chega’s result shook up the traditional balance of power in a trend already witnessed elsewhere in Europe with parties such as France’s National Rally, the Brothers of Italy, and Alternative for Germany, which are now in the political mainstream.
Chega leader Andre Ventura has appeared at events with the leaders of those parties in recent years.
For the past 50 years, the Social Democrats and the centre-left Socialist Party have alternated in power in Portugal.
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