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Portuguese here.

Nothing abnormal nor illegal.

The coalition with the most votes will rule.

If everyone else is against that they can vote them out.

None issue blown completely out of proportion.

(vide the ridiculous #PortugalCoup)

Edit: or => nor

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I'm Portuguese too, I can also confirm this, this is the usual procedure, the party with more votes is the one who forms government, having more than 50% of the votes or not. Yes it may have a hard time since the opposition can join forces and vote against everything.

This is nothing more than the losing side whining because it wanted to rule, the same side that said if it lost the elections would disaprove blindly the state budget everytime.

You can confirm what ptpttptp said? But you contradict him. He said the coalition with the most votes will rule (which seems to be the left-wing coalition), whereas you claim the party with the most votes will form the government, even if they have less than 50% of the votes (which would be really odd if there's a majority coalition willing to govern).

It sounds like the losing side is stealing government despite losing the election here. Unless of course that largest party can form a majority coalition with a moderate left-wing party. Then everything would be fine. But forming a minority government against the wishes of the parliament, should not be possible.

The right-wing parties ran as a coalition, single box in the ballot. The left-wing parties ran isolated and want to form a coalition after the results. The problem here is one of perspective: there are no winners or losers, there is only number of seats in parliament, and the left has the majority. The President can invite whoever he chooses to form government and he chose the right.

There have been successful minority governments before. In this case, the left (if they can reach an agreement) is claiming that they will pass a vote-of-no-confidence on this government.

There is another issue here. The President himself is on the way out and he cannot call for new elections. But everything is proceeding according to our constitution, so democracy is safe.

Like dellphonering said, the coalition that formed BEFORE the elections not AFTER.

The President can invite whoever he chooses to form government. Therefore, he's choice being right or wrong is a matter of opinion, not an "affront" to democracy.

I flagged the story because it's apparently BS, and because it's a pay wall.

Is there a better article floating around?

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