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Portugal votes in election that could add momentum to Europe’s rightward shift(www.france24.com)

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Voters in Portugal go to the polls Sunday in an early election that could see the country join a shift to the right seen across Europe after eight years of Socialist rule.

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Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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Socialist rule? What countries are those? AFAIK it’s been more like

NL: right to ultra right
BE: center to center right
FR: center
DE: center to center left(ish)
NO: right
SV: center left to right
etc

so enlighten me about this “socialist rule”.

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bolzolol@feddit.de
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Germany very generously described, would say they’re also rather center to center right.

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amenotef@lemmy.world
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News exaggerate everything nowadays.

I think “populism rule” would fit a bit better.

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Syntha@sh.itjust.works
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The absolute state of reading comprehension on Lemmy. Holy shit

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Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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cmeio rightly pointed out that “socialist rule” did not necessarily apply to Europe, but Portugal specifically. My understanding is that you mean the same, but in a rather less polite way, correct?

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inlandempire@jlai.lu
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France center hehehe

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Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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Stretching it, I know

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inlandempire@jlai.lu
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Welp, that’s what Macron first presented himself as, can’t blame you 🤭

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poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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Like in many European countries the social democratic party calls it self socialist party. It gets especially odd in Portugal, because the big center-right conservative party calls themselves ”social democrats” 🙄

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Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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Ah thank you!

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cmeio@lemmy.world
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I think that refers to Portugal being ruled by the Socialist party for 8 years

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ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
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Actually in any sane country the Portuguese Socialist party would be considered neoliberal

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