Luis Montenegro
In Portugal’s elections, conservatives take the lead even as far-right surges
The Socialist Party (PS) government, which had been in power in Portugal since 2015, was forced to resign in November when Prime Minister António Costa and some of his ministers got mired in a corruption scandal over lucrative lithium and green hydrogen projects
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