Funnilly enough, I voted yesterday, didn’t at all follow this on TV (what’s the point: me following the news about isn’t going to change anything, better just check the final results the next day) and forgot to check the results until I saw this post in Lemmy.
Nice to see that a leftwing guy won this first round (even though he’s from the mainstream “left” party, he’s actually from a different faction that the self-serving neoliberal crooks that have dominated that party for 2+ decades, so he’s probably center-left unlike the leadership of his party which is at best center-right)
Not nice to see the far-right fascist who almost certainly gets support from American fascists (he certainly parrots a lot of their propaganda) getting second place followed by the far-right ultra-neoliberal (who also probably gets support from the more traditionals American far-right, though Reaganists - when it started his party under his leadership wanted to privatise the National Health Service until they found out the public were overwhelmingly against it - rather than Fascists) in third place.
Nice to see the sleazy rat with fingers in all pies fielded by the curreny mainstream rightwing party in Government only get 11%.
That said, there will be a second round between the top two candidates and if you add up the numbers from just the people who are very openly and without a doubt rightwing, they exceed 50% (just) so there is still a real risk that the far-right fascist might win.
Also note that the President in Portugal is a position with very little power, with almost all of the power being in Parliament and Government, similar to Germany.
Funnilly enough, I voted yesterday, didn’t at all follow this on TV (what’s the point: me following the news about isn’t going to change anything, better just check the final results the next day) and forgot to check the results until I saw this post in Lemmy.
Nice to see that a leftwing guy won this first round (even though he’s from the mainstream “left” party, he’s actually from a different faction that the self-serving neoliberal crooks that have dominated that party for 2+ decades, so he’s probably center-left unlike the leadership of his party which is at best center-right)
Not nice to see the far-right fascist who almost certainly gets support from American fascists (he certainly parrots a lot of their propaganda) getting second place followed by the far-right ultra-neoliberal (who also probably gets support from the more traditionals American far-right, though Reaganists - when it started his party under his leadership wanted to privatise the National Health Service until they found out the public were overwhelmingly against it - rather than Fascists) in third place.
Nice to see the sleazy rat with fingers in all pies fielded by the curreny mainstream rightwing party in Government only get 11%.
That said, there will be a second round between the top two candidates and if you add up the numbers from just the people who are very openly and without a doubt rightwing, they exceed 50% (just) so there is still a real risk that the far-right fascist might win.
Also note that the President in Portugal is a position with very little power, with almost all of the power being in Parliament and Government, similar to Germany.