Portugal's centre-right coalition government ousted

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Portugal's centre-right coalition government ousted



LISBON: -- Portugal’s centre-right coalition government has fallen less than two weeks after it was sworn in.

A group of left-wing parties rejected Passos Coelho’s centre-right minority government’s path of reforms and meeting eurozone commitments.

A motion of rejection put forward by the leftist parties was approved by 123 votes to 107.

Portugal’s next government looks likely to be led by the Socialist Party with Antonio Costa as prime minister, supported by the Communist and Left Bloc parties.

The alliance has promised to alleviate austerity, though critics fear a return to borrow-and-spend policies

Outside the parliament, demonstrators at a left-wing rally shouted “Victory!” as the news of the vote spread.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-11-11

[godden]

Have to wait and see what mad mullah merkel says.

[ozyjon]

Thank god for Thai Visa, i'm in my last few weeks

in Portugal right now before heading to the LOS.

I see all this mambo jumbo on TV but i can't follow

it, they waffle on for so long but the jist i get from

local people is that there are big stormy clouds

heading our way, i think if you can leave this country

the time to get out is now, i'm gone in 2 weeks.

[TimmyT]

i feel so sorry for you, dear Portugal. especially in this economic situation leftisit governemt will kill you...

the majority will always vote for populists who promise to rob the rich minority and share their money among parasites.

this is where universal souffrage sooner or later leads to...

nuff said

[Si Thea01]

Heaven help the country. They'll follow Greece down the proverbial chute. Poeple wanting something for nothing, promised by the socialist lefties, as long as they can control them. Look at Australia after two terms of lefty socialist governments. A basket case and now the population is rising against any type of reform to being the country back on to an even keel. You get what you sow and all I can say is I am glad that I have got my money out and now have it in a safe haven, no tax and allowing me to live an extremeuy comfortable here in Thailand.