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Jan 31 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is what happens when you report on Portugal from New York.
Or from Madrid in this case I think.
Wonder what happened here. Probably filing deadline before the final results were in (absolute majority was unlikely indeed).

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Jan 31
A map of the Chega vote in yesterday's 🇵🇹 election, by parish (freguesia).
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Jan 30
First projection of the 🇵🇹 legislative election:
The latest polls indicated a tie, so it looks really good for the PS, especially since am absolute majority in parliament is possible. It was a fairly distant possibility during the campaign.
The last time the PS got an absolute majority was in 2005, with 45% of the popular vote and 52% of seats in parliament.
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Jan 29
Portugal votes tomorrow. The decline in electoral turnout since the establishment of democracy has been spectacular {
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One relevant factor for the 2019 elections is that electoral law changed and residents abroad (Portugal has a huge diaspora) are now automatically registered. The electorate abroad expanded from ca. 250'000 to 1.5 million between the 2015 and 2019 elections.
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Three proxies of the Dutch bible belt (orthodox protestants) :
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