With cry of ‘enough,’ Portugal’s far right challenges the establishment
Rodrigo Mira, like many Portuguese voters, has had enough of Socialist Party governments.
“We are tired of left-wing politics and left-wing policies,” says Mr. Mira, a security-sector worker who previously lived in Texas. “We want to have a chance to change and have a better country like [the United States] will with [Donald] Trump.”
That is why Mr. Mira is planning to vote for Chega – whose name indeed means “enough” – in Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Portugal. Led by André Ventura, a rising star of Europe’s radical right movement, Chega looks set to be the kingmaker in what is expected to be a hung parliament. While the ruling Socialist Party and the opposition Social Democratic Party will still likely
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