{"id":45175,"date":"2019-10-06T12:34:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T04:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45175"},"modified":"2019-10-06T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T04:34:39","slug":"portugals-socialists-tipped-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45175","title":{"rendered":"Portugal\u2019s Socialists tipped for re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Portugals-Socialists-tipped-for-re-election.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Portugals-Socialists-tipped-for-re-election.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LISBON, Oct 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Portugal votes on Sunday with Prime<br>Minister Antonio Costa\u2019s Socialists tipped to win a second straight term<br>after presiding over a period of solid economic growth following years of<br>austerity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Costa\u2019s likely re-election bucks the trend of declining centre-left<br>fortunes and the rise of far-right, populist parties seen elsewhere in<br>Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Final opinion polls published Friday put support for the Socialist Party<br>(PS) \u2014 which has governed for the past four years with the backing in<br>parliament of two smaller hard-left parties \u2014 at 36-39 percent, compared to<br>25-30 percent for nearest rivals the centre-right Social Democrats (PSD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If these results are confirmed the PS would boost their number in<br>Portugal\u2019s 230-seat parliament but still fall short of an absolute majority,<br>meaning former Lisbon mayor Costa would once again need the support of at least one other leftist party to govern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polling stations open at 8:00 am (0700 GMT) and will close at 7:00 pm (1800<br>GMT), with results announced later on Sunday. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISBON, Oct 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Portugal votes on Sunday with PrimeMinister Antonio Costa\u2019s Socialists tipped to win a second straight termafter presiding over a period of solid economic growth following years ofausterity. Costa\u2019s likely re-election bucks the trend of declining centre-leftfortunes and the rise of far-right, populist parties seen elsewhere inEurope. Final opinion polls published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}