The Portuguese exception is over. In the elections held on May 18, the country experienced a clear shift to the Right: the conservative coalition Democratic Alliance (AD) emerged as the leading force ...

Lisbon - Senior Portuguese political and academic figures on Monday welcomed the United Kingdom’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara, describing it as a "major diplomatic victory" ...

Portugal’s ruling center-right Democratic Alliance (AD) won a snap parliamentary election on Sunday but again fell short of the majority needed to end a long period of instability as the far-right ...

Portugal’s third general election in three years provided little hope for ending the worst spell of political instability for decades in the European Union country of 10.6 million people. “The ...

Portugal's anti-immigration Chega party notched another political gain for Europe's far right on Wednesday after it was ...

Voters in Portugal are returning to the polls for a third general election in three years, as the country’s increasingly fragmented political landscape defies efforts to unite behind policies on ...

Smaller parties got the other seats. Corruption scandals have dogged Portuguese politics in recent years, helping fuel the rise of Chega. Chega owes much of its success to its demands for a ...

Voters in Portugal are returning to the polls for a third general election in three years, as the country’s increasingly fragmented political landscape defies efforts to unite behind policies on ...

Following are the main parties running in Portugal's general election on Sunday, its third in just over three years. Opinion polls are pointing to another fragile minority government and a fragmented ...

Portuguese political parties were wrapping up their campaigns on Lisbon's streets on Friday ahead of a general election on Sunday - the country's third early vote in as many years - that polls ...

Montenegro has denied any wrongdoing. Corruption scandals have dogged Portuguese politics in recent years, helping fuel the rise of Chega. But the party has recently fallen afoul of its own ...