Democracy taking second place in Portugal again?

Portugal's President Won't Allow Leftists to Form a Government

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Originally Posted by teleSur Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva said he will not allow a coalition of leftist parties to form a government despite the fact that they won an outright majority in parliamentary elections held earlier this month. The president said Thursday that he gave conservative Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho the mandate to form a minority government that will fall in line with the policy of austerity imposed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “In 40 years of democracy, no government in Portugal has ever depended on the support of anti-European forces, that is to say forces that campaigned to abrogate the Lisbon Treaty, the Fiscal Compact, the Growth and Stability Pact, as well as to dismantle monetary union and take Portugal out of the euro, in addition to wanting the dissolution of NATO,” said President Cavaco Silva. [...] “I give this government a week or a week and a half,” said Left Bloc lawmaker Filipe Soares. "The president will have to take the responsibility for the instability that will be created by this decision." Critics portrayed the president’s move as an assault on democracy. “Democracy must take second place to the higher imperative of euro rules and membership,” wrote Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor of The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. Portugal returned to democracy in 1974 after nearly 50 years of authoritarianism.

Another fine example of "western values" in the EU of 2015. I hope the Portuguese will kick that guy out asap.

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