Voters in Portugal go to the polls Sunday in an early election that could see the country join a shift to the right seen across Europe after eight years of Socialist rule.

  • Nightwatch Admin
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    4 months ago

    Socialist rule? What countries are those? AFAIK it’s been more like

    NL: right to ultra right
    BE: center to center right
    FR: center
    DE: center to center left(ish)
    NO: right
    SV: center left to right
    etc

    so enlighten me about this “socialist rule”.

    • poVoqM
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      264 months ago

      Like in many European countries the social democratic party calls it self socialist party. It gets especially odd in Portugal, because the big center-right conservative party calls themselves ”social democrats” 🙄

      • Nightwatch Admin
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        64 months ago

        cmeio rightly pointed out that “socialist rule” did not necessarily apply to Europe, but Portugal specifically. My understanding is that you mean the same, but in a rather less polite way, correct?

    • @bolzolol@feddit.de
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      24 months ago

      Germany very generously described, would say they’re also rather center to center right.