More Second-Order than Ever? The 2014 European Election in Portugal

Freire, André; Santana-Pereira, José

doi:10.1080/13608746.2015.1076593

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“…Two second-order elections took place during the 2011-15 legislature. The PS managed to win both the 2013 local elections (Jalali 2014) and the 2014 European election (Freire & Santana-Pereira 2015). In the latter, the governing parties obtained a very poor result (27.7 per cent): 22 percentage points less than their combined 2011 vote shares (50.4 per cent) and 12 percentage points less than their joint results in the 2009 European Parliament (EP) election.…”

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The 2015 Portuguese Legislative Election: Widening the Coalitional Space and Bringing the Extreme Left in

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2018

Crisis Elections, New Contenders and Government Formation

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This article provides an overview of the Portuguese legislative election held on 4 October 2015 by exploring the economic and political context in which the election took place, the opinion polls, party positions and campaign issues, the results and, finally, the process that led to the formation of the first Socialist minority government supported by far-left parties. Due to this outcome, despite the relative majority of the votes obtained by the incumbent centre-right coalition, we argue that this election result cannot be interpreted as a victory of austerity, but rather as the first step towards contract parliamentarism in Portugal. The 2015 legislative election constituted a second test of the resilience of the Portuguese party system in a context of severe economic crisis, following that of the 2011 election, which had resulted in few changes in its format and a severe defeat for the incumbent Partido Socialista (Socialist Party-PS). 1 Contrary to what happened in Greece, Italy and Spain, the incumbent defeat was not accompanied by a significant reduction in the electoral weight of the traditional parties or the surge of new, anti-establishment parties (

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The 2015 Portuguese Legislative Election: Widening the Coalitional Space and Bringing the Extreme Left in

Giorgi¹,

Santana-Pereira²

2018

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“…Despite a fairly old-school traditional ideological discourse, the PCP is a very well-organised party and has a stable electorate. The CDU, a stable electoral alliance between the Communists and the Greens, increased the number of municipalities under its rule in the 2013 local election, and elected three members of the EP (MEPs) in 2014, one more than in the 1999-2014 period (Freire & Santana-Pereira 2015).…”

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“…Three different types of political forces participated in the 2015 legislative election: four parties or coalitions that already had parliamentary representation; three new/small parties that were seen as having a chance of electing a member of parliament (MP) due to their performance in the 2014 EP election (Freire & Santana-Pereira 2015); and several microparties with little prospect of entering the parliamentary arena. The traditional parties with parliamentary representation are the governing coalition PAF, their main opponent and competitor PS, the far-left BE and the communist/green coalition Coligação Democrática Unitária (Unitary Democratic Coalition -CDU).…”

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“…In the latter, the governing parties obtained a very poor result (27. (Freire & Santana-Pereira 2015). This meagre Socialist victory was widely discussed in the Downloaded by [b-on: Biblioteca do conhecimento online UL] at 03:57 18 May 2016 public arena, led to internal turmoil and was one of the reasons behind the replacement of the party leader the following autumn.…”

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“…The PS managed to win both the 2013 local elections (Jalali 2014) and the 2014 European election (Freire & Santana-Pereira 2015). In the latter, the governing parties obtained a very poor result (27.…”

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