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Portugal's President Anibal Cavaco Silva wins the election
Convincing a vote of about 53,3 Cavaco Silva percent was on Sunday re-elected as president and reached the absolute majority in the first round of elections.
Even before this result apparent in the polls. Cavaco Silvas Gegenkandidat, the writer Manuel Alegre, remained behind with only 19,7 Percent. The 74-year-old socialist Alegre was José Sócrates' Socialist Party (PS) and the left block (Left Bloc) supported, after the last election, he in 2006 independent candidate.
A triumphant success for the right-wing Social Democratic Party PSD, which the ruling Prime Minister Sócrates gave a bitter defeat: “We can not be satisfied” Commenting Sócrates, in the autumn 2009 an absolute majority in parliament and since then has lost a minority government in power.
Focus of the campaign was the economic- and financial crisis, in Portugal is the poorest country in Western Europe and the loud Cavaco Silva (71) is due to the devastating work of the socialist government Sócrates'.
Anibal Cavaco Silva had still behave very quiet during his first term in the Palacio de Belém, he now denounces the louder minority government: "If Portugal to rescue his State Finance help from the EU and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) must take advantage of, this is the fault of the government of socialist Prime Minister José Sócrates!"Portugal is currently seeking a recovery of the financial crisis without the aid of the EU bailout fund to.
The President of Portugal primarily has moral authority, also has the right but also the dissolution of Parliament.
The politics of almost 10 Million eligible voters showed effect, According choice CNE only involved 52,5 % the population of Portugal, im district Algarve struction even expressed nur 44 Percent of voters to the polls. However, in some cities fell voting machines for technical reasons, and thus denied the vote of hundreds of citizens, as the Mayor of Faro.
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