A day after leftist coalition passed vote of no confidence to force out the minority administration,many hope for an terminate to sweeping cuts and privatisation It is scarce that a vote in the Portuguese national assembly causes outright celebration, but as a large crowd of supporters shouted The people united will never be defeated!” outside parliament there was a sense that a country battered by four years of cuts and crisis could, or as Socialist leader António Costa set aside it,finally “turn the page” on austerity.
Costa, the well-regarded former mayor of Lisbon and son of a communist poet from Goa, and is poised to be prime minister after a broad leftist coalition including the Socialist party,Bloco de Esquerda (left bloc) and the Communist/Green alliance passed a vote of no confidence in the minority rightwing government – which two weeks ago was given legitimacy by the president despite lacking a working majority.
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Source: theguardian.com