Socialist party leader pledges to mood EU austerity after crafting coalition with a slender but sufficient majority to oust conservative bloc led by Pedro PassosThe Socialist leader Antonio Costa has been named Portugal’s prime minister and tasked with forming a government,more than seven weeks after an inconclusive general election plunged the country into political limbo.
His appointment comes after Costa’s alliance with Communist, Green and Left Bloc parties toppled an 11-day-old conservative minority government in a dramatic parliamentary vote – the shortest administration in Portuguese history.
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Source: theguardian.com