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Portugal’s fractured new parliament hit an impasse on its first sitting on Tuesday as it failed to elect a president. The centre-right party of Prime Minister Luis Montenegro, which narrowly won elections earlier this month, did not achieve the 116 votes it needed to see its candidate Jose Pedro Aguiar-Branco elected president. Montenegro’s party is […]

Luis Montenegro, the centre-right leader, was appointed as the prime minister of Portugal on Wednesday night. However, he will need to build a coalition government and deal with a growing far-right presence after his party’s narrow victory in parliamentary elections. The 51-year-old lawyer and seasoned parliamentarian takes over from the Socialist Party’s Antonio Costa, who has been in power since 2015. His […]