News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 2 months ago
Supporters wave flags as Portuguese Prime Minister and Socialist Party leader Jose Socrates, center, speaks during the election closing rally in Lisbon on Friday, Sept. 25, 2009...Portugal voted Sunday in parliamentary elections that are predicted to...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 2 months ago
Prime Minister Jose Socrates also vows to stick with a modernizing reform program that has antagonized many. The main opposition Social Democratic Party says the country can't afford more debt and wants private enterprise to lead the way. Recent...
News Source: The Age
| 2 months ago
Sunday and close at 7pm with some 9.5 million people eligible to vote. Final polls published on Friday showed Prime Minister Jose Socrates' Socialists had widened their lead over the Social Democratic Party (PSD) since the campaign started but short...
News Source: The Courier-Mail
| 2 months ago
Socialists are expected to win despite discontent with the economy in Western Europe's poorest country. Prime Minister Jose Socrates, an energetic 52-year-old, is not likely to get an absolute majority and will have to form a minority government.
News Source: Press TV
| 2 months ago
According to a poll released on Friday, the Socialists with a 38-30 percentage of the votes will rank above the center-right Social Democratic Party (PSD), which has been weakened by a power struggle between populists and traditionalists. According...
News Source: Seattle Times
| 2 months ago
Portugal — Recession weighed heavily on Portuguese voters' minds ahead of parliamentary elections on Sunday that polls indicated would return the incumbent Socialist Party to power. The center-left Socialists want to spend their way out of the...