Portugal centre-right leader Luis Montenegro invited to form new government
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The government is set to be sworn in on April 2, but could face strong resistance from the far-right Chega party.
Portugal’s president has named Luis Montenegro, head of the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD), as the country’s new prime minister and invited him to form a minority government after eight years of Socialist rule.
The long-awaited results of the March 10 elections were published late on Wednesday after votes from abroad were counted, and saw AD win 80 seats in the 230-member parliament, while the Socialist Party and the far-right Chega party clinched 78 and 50 seats, respectively.
At a meeting held early on Thursday, Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa invited Montenegro to become prime minister.
“The AD won the election … [so] the president … decided to nominate Luis Montenegro as prime minister,” the president’s office said in a statement.
The final official results will be certified on Friday, after which parties have 48 hours to mount legal challenges.
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